vision_msgs
- Software
- Perception
- Library
A set of ROS message definitions for unifying computer vision and object detection outputs across pipelines, covering classifiers and detectors in 2D and 3D.
Made by ROS Perception.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-perception/vision_msgs (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 1adca4d (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 1adca4d (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Defines messages for pure classifiers that output class probabilities from one sensor input.
- Defines messages for detectors that output class probabilities together with object poses.
- Provides 2D and 3D bounding box messages specified by a center pose and size.
- Provides XArray message types as the forward-facing interface for a pipeline's results.
- Provides LabelInfo for transmitting metadata alongside semantic segmentation images published as sensor_msgs/Image.
- Includes a second package with RViz2 plugins for visualising detector results.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 1adca4d.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 14 Jan 2026 on ros2
- Latest release
- 4.2.0 (30 May 2025)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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