BOR3D: A use-case-oriented software framework for 3-D object recognition

3-D object recognition has become a major research topic. New low-cost sensors hit the market making 3-D vision affordable for anyone. On the software side, promising open-source tools and libraries have prospered recently. The most important one, regarding 3-D data processing, undoubtedly is the Point Cloud Library (PCL). From an integrator´s point of view, the main benchmarks applied to such a library are the amount of use cases that can be implemented and the effort that is entailed. We have noticed that the scientific community pays little attention to these needs. We hope to change this situation by proposing a framework that is primarily inspired by the PCL. Clearly separating the roles of its users, it leaves integration to the integrators and algorithms to the specialists. This way we hope to provide a means for development teams to participate in the recent advances even if they do not have a special focus on machine vision.