Release Notes

Wish list for next release

Change the API to allow only on kind of transformation, not a list of transformations. See issue #164.
Migrate ffrom yaml-cpp 0.3 to 0.5
Fix portability problem with FileLogger on Windows
Support for OpenMP parallel computing
Handle larger point clouds (100 million points and more)

Already implemented in the current master:

add a new OutlierFilter: RobustWelschOutlierFilter (for robust cost function using Welsch weighting).
Add a new ErrorMinimizer: PointToPointSimilarityErrorMinimizer (rotation + translation + scale)
Add a new Transformation: SimilarityTransformation.
Add a new data filter: VoxelGrid (April 2014, thanks to Samuel Charreyron)
Add support for PCL (Point Cloud Library) data format: PCD (April 2014, thanks to Samuel Charreyron)
Improve *.vtk legacy format to handle UNSTRUCTURED_GRID format (April 2014, thanks to Samuel Charreyron)
New ErrorMinimizer producing covariance matrix (1 April, 2014, thanks to Francisco J Perez Grau)
Better user documentation and tutorials (5 Fev. 2014 thanks to Samuel Charreyron)
Avoid point cloud copies when filtering (10 Jan. 2014 thanks to Oleg Alexandrov)
Add CMake support for find_package (20 Sept. 2013)
Added support for PLY (Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format) for ascii encoding (14 March, 2014)
Improved CSV file support with import/export of selected descriptors