Installing ROS perception

We are going to install a single package called perception, which is a meta package of ROS containing all the perception related packages such as OpenCV, PCL, and so on.

  • In ROS Jade
    $ sudo apt-get install ros-jade-perception  
  • In ROS Indigo
    $ sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-perception  

The ROS perception stack contains the following ROS packages:

  • image-common: This meta package contains common functionalities to handle an image in ROS. The meta package consists of the following list of packages (http://wiki.ros.org/image_common):
    • image_transport: This package helps to compress the image during publishing and subscribes the images to save the band width (http://wiki.ros.org/image_transport). The various compression ...

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