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BlenSor: Blender Sensor Simulation Toolbox

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2011)

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This paper introduces a novel software package for the simulation of various types of range scanners. The goal is to provide researchers in the fields of obstacle detection, range data segmentation, obstacle tracking or surface reconstruction with a versatile and powerful software package that is easy to use and allows to focus on algorithmic improvements rather than on building the software framework around it. The simulation environment and the actual simulations can be efficiently distributed with a single compact file. Our proposed approach facilitates easy regeneration of published results, hereby highlighting the value of reproducible research.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria

    Michael Gschwandtner, Roland Kwitt, Andreas Uhl & Wolfgang Pree

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Song Wang

  6. HRL Laboratories, 3011 Malibu Canyon Road, 90265-4797, Malibu, CA, USA

    Kim Kyungnam

  7. Purdue University, West Lafayette, 47907-2021, IN, USA

    Bedrich Benes

  8. Sandia National Laboratory, 87185, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Kenneth Moreland

  9. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 70504, LA, USA

    Christoph Borst

  10. Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Stephen DiVerdi

  11. Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Chiang Yi-Jen

  12. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94551-0808, Livermore, CA, USA

    Jiang Ming

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Gschwandtner, M., Kwitt, R., Uhl, A., Pree, W. (2011). BlenSor: Blender Sensor Simulation Toolbox. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24031-7_20

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