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34 
35 #ifdef NRT_HAVE_CLOUD
36 #ifndef NRT_POINTCLOUD2_REGISTRATION_TRANSFORMATION_TRANSFORMATIONESTIMATIONSVD_H_
37 #define NRT_POINTCLOUD2_REGISTRATION_TRANSFORMATION_TRANSFORMATIONESTIMATIONSVD_H_
38 
39 #include <nrt/PointCloud2/Registration/Transformation/TransformationEstimationBase.H>
40 
41 namespace nrt
42 {
43  //! Estimates a rigid transform using singular value decomposition
44  class TransformationEstimationSVD: public TransformationEstimationBase
45  {
46  typedef PointCloud2::AffineTransform AffineTransform;
47 
48  public:
49  //! Estimates a rigid transformation between a source and target cloud
50  /*! @param source The source point cloud
51  @param target The target point cloud
52  @return The 4x4 rotation matrix that performs the transform */
53  AffineTransform estimateTransform( PointCloud2 const source,
54  PointCloud2 const target );
55 
56  //! Estimates a rigid transformation between a source and target cloud
57  /*! @param source The source point cloud
58  @param target The target point cloud
59  @param correspondences The correspondences between two clouds
60  @return The 4x4 rotation matrix that performs the transform */
61  AffineTransform estimateTransform( PointCloud2 const source,
62  PointCloud2 const target,
63  Correspondences const correspondences );
64 
65  //! Gets the minimum required number of correspondences to estimate a transform
66  inline size_t minimumNumCorrespondences() const { return 3; }
67 
68  protected:
69  //! Does the actual estimation
70  /*! Use either ref or r value ref here since we want this to work
71  with the virtual functions in the iterators */
72  AffineTransform estimate( PointCloud2::ConstIterator<> && sourceBegin,
73  PointCloud2::ConstIterator<> && targetBegin,
74  const size_t srcSize );
75  };
76 } // namespace nrt
77 
78 #endif // NRT_POINTCLOUD2_REGISTRATION_TRANSFORMATION_TRANSFORMATIONESTIMATIONSVD_H_
79 #endif // NRT_HAVE_CLOUD