We are going to install a single package called perception, which is a metapackage of ROS containing all the perception-related packages, such as OpenCV, PCL, and so on:
$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-perception
The ROS perception stack contains the following ROS packages:
- image_common: This metapackage contains common functionalities to handle an image in ROS. The metapackage 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 methods are JPEG/PNG compression and Theora for streaming videos. We ...
