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:

  1. Randomly select a minimum subset of data points required to fit the model
  2. Fit the model to the selected subset of data points
  3. Determine the error or distance of all data points to the fitted model
  4. Count the number of inliers, which are data points that fit the model within a certain threshold of error
  5. Repeat the above steps for a specified number of iterations
  6. Select the model with the largest number of inliers as the best model
  7. 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.