Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

TL;DR

Open3D is a versatile, open-source library designed for efficient 3D data processing, supporting rapid development with optimized, parallelized algorithms in C++ and Python, suitable for research and deployment.

Contribution

It introduces a clean, minimal-dependency, cross-platform library with optimized backend and a carefully designed frontend for 3D data handling, facilitating research and practical applications.

Findings

Used in multiple published research projects

Supports parallelization for performance

Easy to set up and extend across platforms

Abstract

Open3D is an open-source library that supports rapid development of software that deals with 3D data. The Open3D frontend exposes a set of carefully selected data structures and algorithms in both C++ and Python. The backend is highly optimized and is set up for parallelization. Open3D was developed from a clean slate with a small and carefully considered set of dependencies. It can be set up on different platforms and compiled from source with minimal effort. The code is clean, consistently styled, and maintained via a clear code review mechanism. Open3D has been used in a number of published research projects and is actively deployed in the cloud. We welcome contributions from the open-source community.