Open3D 0.9.0 is ready!

Open3D 0.9.0 Release Notes

The Open3D team and the Open Source Vision Foundation are proud to present the 0.9.0 release of the Open3D library.

This release brings two exciting algorithms for processing point clouds and meshes: Poisson surface reconstruction and as-rigid-as-possible deformation. You can find a reference for how to use these algorithms in the following examples:

The problems related to headless mode rendering have also been solved in this release, among other bug fixes!

This is the last release of Open3D with support for Python 2.7.

On behalf of the Open3D team, we would like to thank our technical writer, Rohan Rathi and the Google season of docs organization for their help in the critical task of improving Open3D documentation. Your contribution has served to make Open3D more accessible to new users.

We are also happy to announce our new Discourse forum, which becomes the official way to discuss issues related to Open3D.

In an effort to improve our communication with the Open3D community and all the developers that use this library, we have created a new mailing list: open3d-all@osvf.org. Here developers and contributors can obtain first-hand information about the development progress of Open3D, the library’s roadmap, and information on how to proceed to implement new features. You can also join the mailing list via Google groups

Take a look at our documentation Open3D docs to see all the details, and send us feedback at open3d-info@osvf.org. You can also join our Discourse forum or the Discord network to participate in the development discussions.

Enjoy!

The Open3D team

Legend:

  • [Added]: Used to indicate the addition of new features
  • [Changed]: Updates of existing functionalities
  • [Deprecated]: Functionalities / features removed in future releases
  • [Removed]: Functionalities/features removed in this release
  • [Fixed]: For any bug fixes
  • [Breaking] This functionality breaks the previous API and you need to check your code

Installation and project structure

  • [Added] Add optional flag to install-deps-ubuntu.sh script #1191
  • [Changed] Restructure to expose python package at top level #1251
  • [Changed] avoid duplicate -O3 flag at Release build #1280
  • [Changed] CMake Option to use system installed libjpeg-turbo #1294
  • [Fixed] fix link warning #1223
  • [Breaking] Upgrade compiler #1327
  • [Deprecated] Support for Python 2.7

CORE features and applications

  • [Added] Implement image flip functions #1186
  • [Added] Merge close vertices #1189
  • [Added] Support rendering textured triangle mesh #1194
  • [Added] Add some Python init functions to geometry classes #1228
  • [Added] Cluster TriangleMesh Connected Components #1272
  • [Added] Support for Large PTS File IO #1279
  • [Added] Deform TriangleMesh using as-rigid-as-possible #1312
  • [Added] Add geometry without resetting bounding box #1315 (Thanks sammo2828!)
  • [Added] Poisson Surface Reconstruction #1317
  • [Added] Implementation of Alpha Shapes #1320
  • [Added] New ClearGeometries for Visualizer #1338 (Thanks sammo2828!)
  • [Added] Added VisualizerWithVertexSelection #1390
  • [Changed] std::unordered_map for voxelgrid structure #1180
  • [Changed] New Mesh Class Structure #1184
  • [Changed] Warning if no normals in ColoredICP #1187
  • [Changed] Update type check for open3d PointCloud #1193
  • [Changed] TexturedTriangleMesh clean up #1208
  • [Changed] LogFatal to throw exception rather than exit() #1209
  • [Changed] OrientedBoundingBox parameter update and crop #1218
  • [Changed] Polish global optimization #1224
  • [Changed] Proper LogError and LogWarning #1237
  • [Changed] Refactor Image::Prepare() in RealSense.cpp #1277
  • [Changed] Expose get_rotation_matrixfrom* directly in open3d.geometry #1355
  • [Changed] Expose RenderOption.mesh_show_wireframe to Python API #1388 (Thanks sammo2828)
  • [Changed] Only update single geometry in Visualizer::AddGeometry and Visualizer::RemoveGeometry #1392 (Thanks sammo2828)
  • [Changed] Improve numeric stability of TriangleTriangle3d #1177
  • [Fixed] fopen wrapper to enable unicode paths in Windows #1190
  • [Fixed] Fix read_rgbd_image in make_fragments.py #1192
  • [Fixed] Fix operator+ of AxisAlignedBoundingBox #1205
  • [Fixed] fixed maybe-uninitialized warning in TetraMesh.cpp #1212
  • [Fixed] Fast Global Registration does not populate fitness, inlier_rmse, and `corres #1001 #1221
  • [Fixed] fix control may reach end warning for VFatal #1222
  • [Fixed] fix control may reach end warning for VError #1288
  • [Fixed] Quick fix to colored icp #1292
  • [Fixed] fix write ply color values clamped #1306
  • [Fixed] osMesa headless rendering fixed #1358
  • [Fixed] Fix BPA memory leak #1363

Documentation, tutorials, and examples

  • [Changed] Improve docs for color map #1270 (Thanks RohanRathi)
  • [Changed] Improve docs for camera #1271(Thanks RohanRathi)
  • [Changed] Improve docs on Bounding Boxes for CPP api #1282 (Thanks RohanRathi)
  • [Changed] Update python bindings & add docs for Bounding Box #1319 (Thanks RohanRathi)
  • [Changed] Add script details in docs #1342 (Thanks RohanRathi)