measuring the distance from a point to another in meshlab for slam kinect data

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prgbenz picture prgbenz · May 24, 2013 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I'm going to use openslam to reconstruct my room. The reconstructed data will be save in PLY or PCD format and view by meshlab.

meshlab has a measuring tool for measuring the distance from one point to another.

My question is will the measuring tool give me the exact distance in unit for example cm or meter ?

Answer

FSaccilotto picture FSaccilotto · Jul 16, 2013

Meshlab will give you the exact distance in units of the mesh. Therefore you have to make sure, that the SLAM-Algorithm you use produces a pointcloud in correct scale. As far as I know data from kinect is assigned the depth in millimeter. If your SLAM doesn't scale the pointcloud you should be able to measure that.

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