Velodyne

Ouster and Velodyne announced the successful completion of their *merger* of equals, effective February 10, 2023. Velodyne was a mechanical and solid-state LIDAR manufacturer. The headquarter is in San Jose, California, USA.

Ouster

LIDAR manufacturer, specializing in digital-spinning LiDARs. Ouster is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Livox

LIDAR manufacturer.

SICK

Sensor and automation manufacturer, the headquarter is located in Waldkirch, Germany.

Hokuyo

Sensor and automation manufacturer, headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Pioneer

LIDAR manufacturer, specializing in MEMS mirror-based raster scanning LiDARs (3D-LiDAR). Pioneer is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Luminar

LIDAR manufacturer focusing on compact, auto-grade sensors. Luminar is headquartered Palo Alto, California, USA.

Hesai

Hesai Technology is a LIDAR manufacturer, founded in Shanghai, China.

Robosense

RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.) is a LIDAR sensor, AI algorithm and IC chipset maufactuirer based in Shenzhen and Beijing (China).

LSLIDAR

LSLiDAR (Leishen Intelligent System Co., Ltd.) is a LIDAR sensor manufacturer and complete solution provider based in Shenzhen, China.

Ibeo

Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH is an automotive industry / environmental detection laserscanner / LIDAR manufacturer, based in Hamburg, Germany.

Innoviz

Innoviz technologies / specializes in solid-state LIDARs.

Quanenergy

Quanenergy Systems / solid-state and mechanical LIDAR sensors / offers End-to-End solutions in Mapping, Industrial Automation, Transportation and Security. The headquarter is located in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

Cepton

Cepton (Cepton Technologies, Inc.) / pioneers in frictionless, and mirrorless design, self-developed MMT (micro motion technology) lidar technology. The headquarter is located in San Jose, California, USA.

Blickfeld

Blickfeld is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer for autonomous mobility and IoT, based in München, Germany.

Neuvition

Neuvition is a solid-state LIDAR manufacturer based in Wujiang, China.

Aeva

Aeva is bringing the next wave of perception technology to all devices for automated driving, consumer electronics, health, industrial robotics and security, Mountain View, California, USA.

XenomatiX

XenomatiX offers true solid-state lidar sensors based on a multi-beam lasers concept. XenomatiX is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

MicroVision

A pioneer in MEMS-based laser beam scanning technology, the main focus is on building Automotive grade Lidar sensors, located in Hamburg, Germany.

PreAct

PreAct's mission is to make life safer and more efficient for the automotive industry and beyond. The headquarter is located in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Pepperl+Fuchs

Is a global technology company, specialized in innovative automation solutions and sensor technologies, such as LiDAR, based in Mannheim, Germany.

Riegl

Riegl is a manufacturer of 3D laser scanning systems, based in Austria.

Ford Dataset

The dataset is time-stamped and contains raw data from all the sensors, calibration values, pose trajectory, ground truth pose, and 3D maps. The data is Robot Operating System (ROS) compatible.

Audi A2D2 Dataset

The dataset features 2D semantic segmentation, 3D point clouds, 3D bounding boxes, and vehicle bus data.

Waymo Open Dataset

The dataset contains independently-generated labels for lidar and camera data, not simply projections.

Oxford RobotCar

The Oxford RobotCar Dataset contains over 100 repetitions of a consistent route through Oxford, UK, captured over a period of over a year.

EU Long-term Dataset

This dataset was collected with our robocar (in human driving mode of course), equipped up to eleven heterogeneous sensors, in the downtown (for long-term data) and a suburb (for roundabout data) of Montbéliard in France. The vehicle speed was limited to 50 km/h following the French traffic rules.

NuScenes

Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving.

Lyft

Public dataset collected by a fleet of Ford Fusion vehicles equipped with LIDAR and camera.

KITTI

Widespread public dataset, pirmarily focusing on computer vision applications, but also contains LIDAR point cloud. 

Semantic KITTI

Dataset for semantic and panoptic scene segmentation.

CADC - Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset

Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving in adverse weather conditions (snowy weather).

UofTPed50 Dataset

University of Toronto, aUToronto's self-driving car dataset, which contains GPS/IMU, 3D LIDAR, and Monocular camera data. It can be used for 3D pedestrian detection.

PandaSet Open Dataset

Public large-scale dataset for autonomous driving provided by Hesai & Scale. It enables researchers to study challenging urban driving situations using the full sensor suit of a real self-driving-car.

USyd Dataset- The Univerisity of Sydney Campus- Dataset

Long-term, large-scale dataset collected over the period of 1.5 years on a weekly basis over the University of Sydney campus and surrounds. It includes multiple sensor modalities and covers various environmental conditions. ROS compatible

Boreas Dataset

The Boreas dataset was collected by driving a repeated route over the course of 1 year resulting in stark seasonal variations. In total, Boreas contains over 350km of driving data including several sequences with adverse weather conditions such as rain and heavy snow. The Boreas data-taking platform features a unique high-quality sensor suite with a 128-channel Velodyne Alpha Prime lidar, a 360-degree Navtech radar, and accurate ground truth poses obtained from an Applanix POSLV GPS/IMU.

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Popular highly parallel programming library, with numerous industrial and research use-cases.

Open3D library

Open3D library contanins 3D data processing and visualization algorithms. It is open-source and supports both C++ and Python.

PyTorch3d

PyTorch3d is a library for deep learning with 3D data written and maintained by the Facebook AI Research Computer Vision Team.

Kaolin

Kaolin is a PyTorch Library for Accelerating 3D Deep Learning Research written by NVIDIA Technologies for game and application developers.

PyVista

3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit.

pyntcloud

Pyntcloud is a Python 3 library for working with 3D point clouds leveraging the power of the Python scientific stack.

pointcloudset

Python library for efficient analysis of large datasets of point clouds recorded over time.

LAStools

C++ library and command-line tools for pointcloud processing and data compressing.

Autoware

Popular framework in academic and research applications of autonomous vehicles.

Baidu Apollo

Apollo is a popular framework which accelerates the development, testing, and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles.

Study of LIDAR Semantic Segmentation

Scan-based Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds: An Experimental Study IV 2020.

direct_visual_lidar_calibration

General, Single-shot, Target-less, and Automatic LiDAR-Camera Extrinsic Calibration Toolbox

CoppeliaSim

Cross-platform general-purpose robotic simulator (formerly known as V-REP).

OSRF Gazebo

OGRE-based general-purpose robotic simulator, ROS/ROS 2 compatible.

CARLA

Unreal Engine based simulator for automotive applications. Compatible with Autoware, Baidu Apollo and ROS/ROS 2.

LGSVL / SVL

Unity Engine based simulator for automotive applications. Compatible with Autoware, Baidu Apollo and ROS/ROS 2. *Note:* LG has made the difficult decision to [suspend](https://www.svlsimulator.com/news/2022-01-20-svl-simulator-sunset) active development of SVL Simulator.

OSSDC SIM

Unity Engine based simulator for automotive applications, based on the suspended LGSVL simulator, but an active development. Compatible with Autoware, Baidu Apollo and ROS/ROS 2.

AirSim

Unreal Engine based simulator for drones and automotive. Compatible with ROS.

AWSIM

Unity Engine based simulator for automotive applications. Compatible with Autoware and ROS 2.

ARHeadsetKit

Using $5 Google Cardboard to replicate Microsoft Hololens. Hosts the source code for research on [scene color reconstruction](https://github.com/philipturner/scene-color-reconstruction).

CloudCompare

CloudCompare is a free, cross-platform point cloud editor software.

Foxglove

Foxglove Studio is an integrated visualization and diagnosis tool for robotics, available in your browser or for download as a desktop app on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Lichtblick suite

Lichtblick is an open-source alternative to Foxglove Studio for visualizing and analyzing robotics data.

Rerun

Rerun is a tool for time-aware multimodal data stack and visualizations.

MeshLab

MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing 3D triangular meshes and pointcloud.