From f1aec75f7dd46d5f6af3b131be4354822e63c587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Praveen Palanisamy <4770482+praveen-palanisamy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:02:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add note to filter NaNs in input point clouds --- README.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e34c058..c88d0e1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ The input point-clouds can be from: 3. A point cloud dataset or 4. Any other data source that produces point clouds +**Note:** This package expects valid point cloud data as input. The point clouds you publish to the "`filtered_cloud`" is **not** expected to contain NaNs. The point cloud filtering is somewhat task and application dependent and therefore it is not done by this module. +PCL library provides `pcl::removeNaNFromPointCloud (...)` method to filter out NaN points. You can refer to [this example code snippet](https://github.com/praveen-palanisamy/multiple-object-tracking-lidar/issues/29#issuecomment-672098760) to easily filter out NaN points in your point cloud. + ## Citing If you use the code or snippets from this repository in your work, please cite: