about the readRLEfile script

[KnightOfTheMoonlight]

Dear Shuran,
Thanks for your awesome work. And I have one question about the readRLEfile function.

checkVox = [];
parfor RLEIdx = 1:(length(checkVoxRLE)/2)
    fprintf('Checking RLE: %d/%d\n',RLEIdx,length(checkVoxRLE)/2);
    checkVoxVal  = checkVoxRLE(RLEIdx*2-1);
    checkVoxIter = checkVoxRLE(RLEIdx*2);
    checkVox = [checkVox,repmat(checkVoxVal,1,checkVoxIter)];
end

As above, checkVox should be the voxel data, and you use parfor for parallel the decoding code. However, I really can't get the idea of how to parellel this line: checkVox = [checkVox,repmat(checkVoxVal,1,checkVoxIter)];. As checkVoxVal, checkwriter are variable, so you need to put the repmat(checkVoxVal,1,checkVoxIter) part in order, but if your use parfor it should be paralleled, right? So there's no order at all. Is it weird?

[KnightOfTheMoonlight]

Btw, I'm trying to change this to python. At present, I find my python code takes quite a long time (7mins/file) that your original matlab code. At present, I think this parfor part is the reason. And when I'm trying to understand it, I find the above question.

[mgarbade]

I've converted the data reading part of RLE files into boost python. Still uses GPU and C++ the code is simply interfaced to be accessible in python. You can check out my code here.

Takes 3 seconds / file (including calculating the TSDF so the file is then ready for the network)

[KnightOfTheMoonlight]

@mgarbade Thanks for your sharing! I have made some changes for my code and now it just takes secs to read one file. Here is my code here

[charlesCXK]

Thank you both very much ! I am in trouble when processing the '.bin' file to get the Ground Truth. Thanks for your sharing, and I will try it.