Awesome List Updates on Jul 16, 2024

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1. Awesome Nix

Resources / Discovery

• Searchix - Search Nix packages and options from NixOS, Darwin and Home Manager.

2. Awesome Lidar

Conventions

• Any list item with badge has a GitHub repo or organization

• Any list item with badge has YouTube videos or channel

• Any list item with badge has a scientific paper or detailed description

Datasets

• Brno Urban Dataset (⭐146) - Navigation and localisation dataset for self driving cars and autonomous robots in Brno, Czechia.
  • Paper
  • YouTube video

• Argoverse - A dataset designed to support autonomous vehicle perception tasks including 3D tracking and motion forecasting collected in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida, USA.
  • Paper
  • YouTube video

Libraries

• PyTorch Geometric - A geometric deep learning extension library for PyTorch.
  • GitHub repository (⭐21k)

Algorithms / Basic matching algorithms

• Iterative closest point (ICP) - The must-have algorithm for feature matching applications (ICP).
  • GitHub repository (⭐278) - simpleICP C++ /Julia / Matlab / Octave / Python implementation.
  • GitHub repository (⭐1.6k) - libpointmatcher, a modular library implementing the ICP algorithm.
  • Paper - libpointmatcher: Comparing ICP variants on real-world data sets.

• Normal distributions transform - More recent massively-parallel approach to feature matching (NDT).

• KISS-ICP - In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way.
  • GitHub repository (⭐1.5k)
  • Paper

Algorithms / Semantic segmentation

• RangeNet++ - Fast and Accurate LiDAR Sematnic Segmentation with fully convolutional network.
  • GitHub repository (⭐300)
  • YouTube video

• PolarNet - An Improved Grid Representation for Online LiDAR Point Clouds Semantic Segmentation.
  • GitHub repository (⭐365)
  • YouTube video

• Frustum PointNets - Frustum PointNets for 3D Object Detection from RGB-D Data.
  • GitHub repository (⭐1.6k)

• LIDAR-MOS - Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LIDAR Data
  • GitHub repository (⭐557)
  • YouTube video

• SuperPoint Graph - Large-scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation with Superpoint Graphs
  • GitHub repository (⭐747)
  • YouTube video

• RandLA-Net - Efficient Semantic Segmentation of Large-Scale Point Clouds
  • GitHub repository (⭐1.3k)
  • YouTube video

• Automatic labelling - Automatic labelling of urban point clouds using data fusion
  • GitHub repository (⭐162)
  • YouTube video

Algorithms / Ground segmentation

• Plane Seg (⭐156) - ROS comapatible ground plane segmentation; a library for fitting planes to LIDAR.
  • YouTube video

• LineFit Graph - Line fitting-based fast ground segmentation for horizontal 3D LiDAR data
  • GitHub repository (⭐636)

• Patchwork - Region-wise plane fitting-based robust and fast ground segmentation for 3D LiDAR data
  • GitHub repository (⭐444)
  • YouTube video

• Patchwork++ - Improved version of Patchwork. Patchwork++ provides pybinding as well for deep learning users
  • GitHub repository (⭐301)
  • YouTube video

Algorithms / Simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM and LIDAR-based odometry and or mapping LOAM

• LOAM J. Zhang and S. Singh - LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time.

• LeGO-LOAM (⭐2.3k) - A lightweight and ground optimized lidar odometry and mapping (LeGO-LOAM) system for ROS compatible UGVs.
  • YouTube video

• Cartographer (⭐7k) - Cartographer is ROS compatible system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.
  • YouTube video

• SuMa++ - LiDAR-based Semantic SLAM.
  • GitHub repository (⭐887)
  • YouTube video

• OverlapNet - Loop Closing for LiDAR-based SLAM.
  • GitHub repository (⭐639)
  • YouTube video

• LIO-SAM - Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping.
  • GitHub repository (⭐3.2k)
  • YouTube video

• Removert - Remove, then Revert: Static Point cloud Map Construction using Multiresolution Range Images.
  • GitHub repository (⭐517)
  • YouTube video

Algorithms / Object detection and object tracking

• Learning to Optimally Segment Point Clouds - By Peiyun Hu, David Held, and Deva Ramanan at Carnegie Mellon University. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.
  • YouTube video
  • GitHub repository (⭐22)

• Leveraging Heteroscedastic Aleatoric Uncertainties for Robust Real-Time LiDAR 3D Object Detection - By Di Feng, Lars Rosenbaum, Fabian Timm, Klaus Dietmayer. 30th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2019.
  • YouTube video

• What You See is What You Get: Exploiting Visibility for 3D Object Detection - By Peiyun Hu, Jason Ziglar, David Held, Deva Ramanan, 2019.
  • YouTube video
  • GitHub repository (⭐111)

• urban_road_filter - Real-Time LIDAR-Based Urban Road and Sidewalk Detection for Autonomous Vehicles
  • GitHub repository (⭐279)
  • YouTube video

• detection_by_tracker - 3D-LIDAR Multi Object Tracking for Autonomous Driving: Multi-target Detection and Tracking under Urban Road Uncertainties, also used in Autoware Universe
  • GitHub
  • YouTube video

LIDAR-other-sensor calibration / Object detection and object tracking

• OpenCalib (⭐2.2k) - A Multi-sensor Calibration Toolbox for Autonomous Driving
  • Paper

Related awesome / Object detection and object tracking

• Awesome point cloud analysis (⭐4k)

• Awesome robotics (⭐4.1k)

• Awesome robotics libraries (⭐2.2k)

• Awesome ROS 2 (⭐1.6k)

• Awesome artificial intelligence (⭐10k)

• Awesome computer vision (⭐20k)

• Awesome machine learning (⭐64k)

• Awesome deep learning (⭐23k)

• Awesome reinforcement learning (⭐8.7k)

• Awesome SLAM datasets (⭐1.6k)

• Awesome electronics (⭐5.7k)

• Awesome vehicle security and car hacking (⭐3k)

• Awesome LIDAR-Camera calibration (⭐886)

• Awesome LiDAR Place Recognition

Others / Object detection and object tracking

• Pointcloudprinter (⭐147) - A tool to turn point cloud data from aerial lidar scans into solid meshes for 3D printing.

• Pcx (⭐1.3k) - Point cloud importer/renderer for Unity.

• Bpy (⭐945) - Point cloud importer/renderer/editor for Blender, Point Cloud visualizer.

• Semantic Segmentation Editor (⭐1.8k) - Point cloud and image semantic segmentation editor by Hitachi Automotive And Industry Laboratory, point cloud annotator / labeling.

• 3D Bounding Box Annotation Tool (⭐611) - 3D BAT: A Semi-Automatic, Web-based 3D Annotation Toolbox for Full-Surround, Multi-Modal Data Streams, point cloud annotator / labeling.
  • Paper
  • YouTube video

• Photogrammetry importer (⭐872) - Blender addon to import reconstruction results of several libraries.

3. Awesome Neovim

Markdown and LaTeX / Diagnostics

• Kicamon/markdown-table-mode.nvim (⭐33) - Markdown format plugin like vim-table-mode but write in Lua.

4. Topics

List of interesting topics

• Topics - Interesting topics coverage on all subjects

• Web development - Top 5 websites to mastering web development

• WordPress development - Understaning the power of WordPress CMS

• Frontend development poll - Your favorite JavaScript framework

List of public profiles of Selvakumaran Krishnan

• ORCID record - Public record of Selvakumaran Krishnan at ORCID

List of company profiles

• Creative animation collections - Wikimint entering to offer gif images for creative developers

List of blogs and websites

• Selvakumaran Krishnan Strikingly - Personal profile at Strikingly

• Ourmaster at Google groups - Discussions about online business ideas

5. Awesome Polars

Libraries/Packages/Scripts / Polars plugins

• life_polars_plugin (⭐3) - Polars plugin to showcase some features of the plugin system by @condekind.

6. Awesome Generative Deep Art

Ethics, Philosophical questions and Discussions about Generative AI

• Text Is the Universal Interface - Scale

Generative AI Tools Directories

• LLM Explorer: A Curated LLM List. Explore LLM List of the Open-Source LLM Models

• OrbicAI: "The Larget AI Directory, GPT Stores, AWS PartyRocks Apps and Lots of Free AI Tools"

• Altern: "Gateway to AI Discoveries"

Courses and Educational Materials

• udlbook/udlbook (⭐5.9k): Understanding Deep Learning by Professor Simon J.D. Prince

Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Stability AI Launches the First of its StableLM Suite of Language Models — Stability AI

Inbox: Stable Diffusion / References Collection about Stable Diffusion

• Stable Diffusion General Updates Posted by u/ImeniSottoITreni | Reddit: a general update on all the "most important" news/repos available

7. Awesome Angular

Online Training / Google Developer Experts

• Angular - The Complete Guide

8. Awesome Sysadmin

Software / VPN

• DefGuard - True enterprise WireGuard with MFA/2FA and SSO. (Source Code) Apache-2.0 Rust

9. Awesome Zsh Plugins

Completions / superconsole - Windows-only

• ssh-agent (twfksh) (⭐1) - A bloat free utility plugin for managing ssh-agent in ZSH. This plugin automatically starts and manages ssh-agent whenever a new ternimal session starts. After running zsh-ssh-agent, you only need to ssh-add your keys once. The plugin will handle the rest.

Themes / superconsole - Windows-only

• cafeconbits (⭐1) - Simple theme with a coffee cup icon. Includes decorators for git status, current directory and the exit status of the last command.

• gg (⭐0) - Includes decorators for time and git status.

• jeff (⭐0) - Includes decorators for user@host, time, current directory and git status. Based on bira (⭐172k).

• thayne (⭐1) - Includes decorators for exit status of last command, time to run if > 1 second, current time, current directory and git status. Requires a Nerd Font.

10. Awesome Sitecore

CDP

• Sitecore CDP Serializer (⭐3) - A Node.js tool aimed to serialize CDP and Personalize assets on a hard drive and restore that back.

11. Awesome Data Engineering

Testing / Data Profiler

• DataKitchen - Open Source Data Observability for end-to-end Data Journey Observability, data profiling, anomaly detection, and auto-created data quality validation tests.

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