PCL RANSAC
PCL (Point Cloud Library) RANSAC is a method used for model fitting in point clouds. RANSAC stands for "Random Sample Consensus" and it is a popular algorithm for fitting models to observed data that contains outliers. The steps involved in PCL RANSAC are as follows:
- Randomly select a minimum subset of data points required to fit the model
- Fit the model to the selected subset of data points
- Determine the error or distance of all data points to the fitted model
- Count the number of inliers, which are data points that fit the model within a certain threshold of error
- Repeat the above steps for a specified number of iterations
- Select the model with the largest number of inliers as the best model
- Refit the model using all the inlier data points
These steps help in robustly estimating a model from a point cloud, even in the presence of outliers. RANSAC is widely used in computer vision, robotics, and 3D reconstruction tasks to estimate geometric models from noisy data.