Cloudini
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
Cloudini is a C++ library that compresses point cloud data, aiming for speed while still giving good compression ratios. It works with PCL and ROS or can be used standalone.
Source on GitHub: github.com/facontidavide/cloudini (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 9b296ff (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 9b296ff (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Encodes point clouds channel by channel, then compresses the result with LZ4 or ZSTD.
- Floating point channels such as X, Y and Z are quantized with a user-given resolution, which makes them lossy.
- RGBA and integer channels, including packed colors named rgb or rgba, are stored losslessly.
- Main uses are reducing the size of datasets such as rosbags and lowering bandwidth when streaming point clouds.
- Includes ROS 2 tools: a point_cloud_transport plugin, a topic converter and a rosbag converter for MCAP files.
- Also builds to WebAssembly for the Foxglove extension and a Python decoder, and offers a benchmark tool for measuring ratio and speed on your own data.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 9b296ff.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 29 Sept 2026 on main
- Latest release
- Release 1.4.1: fix windows compilation (29 Sept 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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