3D ANNOTATION TOOL

Author: Adrià Gallart del Burgo

E-mail: adriagallart@gmail.com

3D Annotation Tool is an application designed to annotate objects in a point cloud scene. Initially, it was developed with the aim to annotate the objects of a table.

Contents

• data: folder that contains some examples of .pcd files and annotations (.xml file).
• documentation: folder that contains the user guide.
• icons: folder with all the icons used.
• src: this folder contains the source code.
• annotation_tool.pro: QtCreator project file.
• CMakeLists.txt: instructions for the installation.
• README.txt: readme file.
• info_app.xml: .xml file with information used for the application.
• info_objects.xml: .xml file with the list of objects annotated by the user.

System requirements

Two options are available to install the prerequisites for the 3D Annotation Tool. The first requires the previous installation of the ROS Groovy.

If the ROS Groovy is installed in your machine:

1. Make sure that the pcl package is installed inside the ros. If it is not installed:
   sudo apt-get install ros-groovy-pcl

2. Install the vtk-qt library:
   sudo apt-get install libvtk5.8-qt4

Without ROS Groovy If the ROS Groovy is not installed, the pcl library has to be installed. The following is required:

1. PCL library:
   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:v-launchpad-jochen-sprickerhof-de/pcl
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpcl-all-dev

2. VTK-QT library:
   sudo apt-get install libvtk5.8-qt

Installation

To install the annotation tool:

1. cd /your/path/3d_annotation_tool/

2. mkdir build

3. cd build

4. cmake ..

5. make

Use

To use the annotation tool:

1. cd /your/path/3d_annotation_tool/

2. cd bin

3. ./Annotation_tool