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Preprocessing

Preprocessing - Scene Tutorial

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Preprocessing

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- [Instructor] To begin processing, we'll go to our next tab at the top. Now, we're going to process all of these scans at one time. I'm going to right click on Scans and choose Process. Here, we'll choose all of the options that we have to make this data work best for us. The first thing is Colorize. We can work with this data without the color information, but it's always nice to have that. So, we'll apply the colors. We'll also create scan point clouds. Scan point clouds are necessary to cutting sections through the data, and then any scans that are already fully processed, they'll automatically skip. We can filter very dark points. In this case, we're not working with data that's incredibly dark, so we can leave that unchecked. We can do a distance filter if we wanted to limit our data to a certain area. We want to turn on the stray point filter. This'll remove any artifacts. And then our edge artifact filter, where the laser gets split on a hard edge. This will clean up that and…

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