Purpose

Exwayz SOR aims at removing statistical outliers from an input point cloud, such as rain reflection, residual noise or points caused by blooming.

This is a re-implementation of the CloudCompare SOR filter.

Command line options

Name Command line prefix Default value Definition
Input point cloud -i Required Path to the input point cloud in .ply , .las or .laz format.
Destination directory -o - Output directory in which the filtered point cloud will be written. By default, it is written near the input point cloud with _sor_filtered as suffix.
Number of neighbors of the KNN search --knn 6 Number of neighbors used in the algorithm. For more information please refer to https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php/SOR_filter
Alpha parameter of the method --alpha 1.0 Multipler on the standard dev used in the algorithm. For more information please refer to https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php/SOR_filter
Grid resolution -s 5.0 The only difference between the original algorithm and ours is that we first split the point cloud using a 2D grid and perform the SOR filtering on each sub-point cloud, allowing less errosion on less dense areas. The grid resolution can be set with this parameter.
Help -h - Display the help.

Output

<input_pc>_sor_filtered.<input_extension> Filtered point cloud.