Libpointmatcher modules

Transformation

PureTranslation

Pure translation transformation A rigid transformation with no rotation.

RigidTransformation

Rigid transformation.

DataPointsFilter

BoundingBoxDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Remove points laying in a bounding box which is axis aligned.

xMin (default: -1) - minimum value on x-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
xMax (default: 1) - maximum value on x-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
yMin (default: -1) - minimum value on y-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
yMax (default: 1) - maximum value on y-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
zMin (default: -1) - minimum value on z-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
zMax (default: 1) - maximum value on z-axis defining one side of the bounding box - min: -inf - max: inf
removeInside (default: 1) - If set to true (1), remove points inside the bounding box; else (0), remove points outside the bounding box - min: 0 - max: 1

CovarianceSamplingDataPointsFilter

Covariance Sampling (CovS) [1]. Performs stability analysis to select geometrically stable points that can bind the rotational components as well as the translational. Uses an estimate of the covariance matrix to detect pair of points which will not be constrained.

nbSample (default: 5000) - Number of point to select. - min: 1 - max: 4294967295
torqueNorm (default: 1) - Method for torque normalization: (0) L=1 (no normalization, more t-normals), (1) L=Lavg (average distance, torque is scale-independent), (2) L=Lmax (scale in unit ball, more r-normals) - min: 0 - max: 2

CutAtDescriptorThresholdDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Cut points with value of a given descriptor above or below a given threshold.

descName (default: none) - Descriptor name used to cut points
useLargerThan (default: 1) - If set to 1 (true), points with values above the ‘threshold’ will be cut. If set to 0 (false), points with values below the ‘threshold’ will be cut. - min: 0 - max: 1
threshold (default: 0) - Value at which to cut. - min: -inf - max: inf

DistanceLimitDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Filter points based on distance measured on a specific axis. If dim is set to -1, points are filtered based on radial distance.

dim (default: -1) - dimension on which the filter will be applied. x=0, y=1, z=2, radius=-1 - min: -1 - max: 2
dist (default: 1) - distance limit of the filter. If dim is set to -1 (radius), the absolute value of dist will be used - min: -inf - max: inf
removeInside (default: 1) - If set to true (1), remove points before the distance limit; else (0), remove points beyond the distance limit - min: 0 - max: 1

ElipsoidsDataPointsFilter

Subsampling, Surfels (Elipsoids). This filter decomposes the point-cloud space in boxes, by recursively splitting the cloud through axis-aligned hyperplanes such as to maximize the evenness of the aspect ratio of the box. When the number of points in a box reaches a value knn or lower, the filter computes the center of mass of these points and its normal by taking the eigenvector corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of all points in the box.

ratio (default: 0.5) - ratio of points to keep with random subsampling. Matrix (normal, density, etc.) will be associated to all points in the same bin. - min: 0.0000001 - max: 0.9999999
knn (default: 7) - determined how many points are used to compute the normals. Direct link with the rapidity of the computation (large = fast). Technically, limit over which a box is splitted in two - min: 3 - max: 2147483647
samplingMethod (default: 0) - if set to 0, random subsampling using the parameter ratio. If set to 1, bin subsampling with the resulting number of points being 1/knn. - min: 0 - max: 1
maxBoxDim (default: inf) - maximum length of a box above which the box is discarded
averageExistingDescriptors (default: 1) - whether the filter keep the existing point descriptors and average them or should it drop them
maxTimeWindow (default: inf) - maximum spread of times in a surfel
minPlanarity (default: 0) - to what extend planarity of surfels needs to be enforced
keepNormals (default: 1) - whether the normals should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepDensities (default: 0) - whether the point densities should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenValues (default: 0) - whether the eigen values should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenVectors (default: 0) - whether the eigen vectors should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepMeans (default: 0) - whether the means should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepCovariances (default: 0) - whether the covariances should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepWeights (default: 0) - whether the original number of points should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepShapes (default: 0) - whether the shape parameters of cylindricity (C), sphericality (S) and planarity (P) shall be calculated
keepIndices (default: 0) - whether the indices of points an ellipsoid is constructed of shall be kept

FixStepSamplingDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. This filter reduces the size of the point cloud by only keeping one point over step ones; with step varying in time from startStep to endStep, each iteration getting multiplied by stepMult. If use as prefilter (i.e. before the iterations), only startStep is used.

startStep (default: 10) - initial number of point to skip (initial decimation factor) - min: 1 - max: 2147483647
endStep (default: 10) - maximal or minimal number of points to skip (final decimation factor) - min: 1 - max: 2147483647
stepMult (default: 1) - multiplication factor to compute the new decimation factor for each iteration - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

GestaltDataPointsFilter

Gestalt descriptors filter.

ratio (default: 0.1) - ratio of points to keep with random subsampling. Matrix (normal, density, etc.) will be associated to all points in the same bin. - min: 0.0000001 - max: 0.9999999
radius (default: 5) - is the radius of the gestalt descriptor, will be divided into 4 circular and 8 radial bins = 32 bins - min: 0.1 - max: 2147483647
knn (default: 7) - determined how many points are used to compute the normals. Direct link with the rapidity of the computation (large = fast). Technically, limit over which a box is splitted in two - min: 3 - max: 2147483647
vSizeX (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in x direction - min: -inf - max: inf
vSizeY (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in y direction - min: -inf - max: inf
vSizeZ (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in z direction - min: -inf - max: inf
keepMeans (default: 0) - whether the means should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
maxBoxDim (default: inf) - maximum length of a box above which the box is discarded
averageExistingDescriptors (default: 1) - whether the filter keep the existing point descriptors and average them or should it drop them
maxTimeWindow (default: inf) - maximum spread of times in a surfel
keepNormals (default: 1) - whether the normals should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenValues (default: 0) - whether the eigen values should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenVectors (default: 0) - whether the eigen vectors should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepCovariances (default: 0) - whether the covariances should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepGestaltFeatures (default: 1) - whether the Gestalt features shall be added to the resulting cloud

IdentityDataPointsFilter

Does nothing.

IncidenceAngleDataPointsFilter

Compute the incidence angle using the dot product of the viewing direction and the surface normal.

Required descriptors: normals, observationDirections. Produced descritors: incidenceAngles. Altered descriptors: none. Altered features: none.

MaxDensityDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Reduce the points number by randomly removing points with a density highler than a treshold.

maxDensity (default: 10) - Maximum density of points to target. Unit: number of points per m^3. - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

MaxDistDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Filter points beyond a maximum distance measured on a specific axis. If dim is set to -1, points are filtered based on a maximum radius.

dim (default: -1) - dimension on which the filter will be applied. x=0, y=1, z=2, radius=-1 - min: -1 - max: 2
maxDist (default: 1) - maximum distance authorized. If dim is set to -1 (radius), the absolute value of minDist will be used. All points beyond that will be filtered. - min: -inf - max: inf

MaxPointCountDataPointsFilter

Conditional subsampling. This filter reduces the size of the point cloud by randomly dropping points if their number is above maxCount. Based on [2]

seed (default: 1) - srand seed - min: 0 - max: 2147483647
maxCount (default: 1000) - maximum number of points - min: 0 - max: 2147483647

MaxQuantileOnAxisDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Filter points beyond a maximum quantile measured on a specific axis.

dim (default: 0) - dimension on which the filter will be applied. x=0, y=1, z=2 - min: 0 - max: 2
ratio (default: 0.5) - maximum quantile authorized. All points beyond that will be filtered. - min: 0.0000001 - max: 0.9999999

MinDistDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. Filter points before a minimum distance measured on a specific axis. If dim is set to -1, points are filtered based on a minimum radius.

dim (default: -1) - dimension on which the filter will be applied. x=0, y=1, z=2, radius=-1 - min: -1 - max: 2
minDist (default: 1) - minimum value authorized. If dim is set to -1 (radius), the absolute value of minDist will be used. All points before that will be filtered. - min: -inf - max: inf

NormalSpaceDataPointsFilter

Normal Space Sampling (NSS) [3]. Construct a set of buckets in the normal-space, then put all points of the data into buckets based on their normal direction; Finally, uniformly pick points from all the buckets until the desired number of points is selected. Required to compute normals as pre-step.

nbSample (default: 5000) - Number of point to select. - min: 1 - max: 4294967295
seed (default: 1) - Seed for the random generator. - min: 0 - max: 4294967295
epsilon (default: 0.09817477042) - Step of discretization for the angle spaces - min: 0.04908738521 - max: 3.14159265359

ObservationDirectionDataPointsFilter

This filter extracts observation directions (vector from point to sensor), considering a sensor at position (x,y,z).

Required descriptors: none. Produced descritors: observationDirections. Altered descriptors: none. Altered features: none.

x (default: 0) - x-coordinate of sensor
y (default: 0) - y-coordinate of sensor
z (default: 0) - z-coordinate of sensor

OctreeGridDataPointsFilter

Construct an Octree grid representation of the point cloud. Constructed either by limiting the number of point in each octant or by limiting the size of the bounding box. Down-sample by taking either the first or a random point, or compute the centroid.

buildParallel (default: 1) - If 1 (true), use threads to build the octree. - min: 0 - max: 1
maxPointByNode (default: 1) - Number of point under which the octree stop dividing. - min: 1 - max: 4294967295
maxSizeByNode (default: 0) - Size of the bounding box under which the octree stop dividing. - min: 0 - max: +inf
samplingMethod (default: 0) - Method to sample the Octree: First Point (0), Random (1), Centroid (2) (more accurate but costly), Medoid (3) (more accurate but costly) - min: 0 - max: 3

OrientNormalsDataPointsFilter

Normals. Reorient normals so that they all point in the same direction, with respect to the observation points.

towardCenter (default: 1) - If set to true(1), all the normals will point inside the surface (i.e. toward the observation points). - min: 0 - max: 1

RandomSamplingDataPointsFilter

Subsampling. This filter reduces the size of the point cloud by randomly dropping points. Based on [2]

prob (default: 0.75) - probability to keep a point, one over decimation factor - min: 0 - max: 1

RemoveNaNDataPointsFilter

Remove points having NaN as coordinate.

RemoveSensorBiasDataPointsFilter

Remove the bias induced by the angle of incidence

Required descriptors: incidenceAngles, observationDirections. Produced descritors: none. Altered descriptors: none. Altered features: points coordinates and number of points.

sensorType (default: 0) - Type of the sensor used. Choices: 0=Sick LMS-1xx, 1=Velodyne HDL-32E - min: 0 - max: 1
angleThreshold (default: 88.) - Threshold at which angle the correction is not applied, in degrees - min: 0. - max: 90.

SamplingSurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter

Subsampling, Normals. This filter decomposes the point-cloud space in boxes, by recursively splitting the cloud through axis-aligned hyperplanes such as to maximize the evenness of the aspect ratio of the box. When the number of points in a box reaches a value knn or lower, the filter computes the center of mass of these points and its normal by taking the eigenvector corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of all points in the box.

ratio (default: 0.5) - ratio of points to keep with random subsampling. Matrix (normal, density, etc.) will be associated to all points in the same bin. - min: 0.0000001 - max: 1.0
knn (default: 7) - determined how many points are used to compute the normals. Direct link with the rapidity of the computation (large = fast). Technically, limit over which a box is splitted in two - min: 3 - max: 2147483647
samplingMethod (default: 0) - if set to 0, random subsampling using the parameter ratio. If set to 1, bin subsampling with the resulting number of points being 1/knn. - min: 0 - max: 1
maxBoxDim (default: inf) - maximum length of a box above which the box is discarded
averageExistingDescriptors (default: 1) - whether the filter keep the existing point descriptors and average them or should it drop them
keepNormals (default: 1) - whether the normals should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepDensities (default: 0) - whether the point densities should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenValues (default: 0) - whether the eigen values should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenVectors (default: 0) - whether the eigen vectors should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud

ShadowDataPointsFilter

Remove ghost points appearing on edge discontinuties. Assume that the origine of the point cloud is close to where the laser center was. Requires surface normal for every points

eps (default: 0.1) - Small angle (in rad) around which a normal shoudn’t be observable - min: 0.0 - max: 3.1416

SimpleSensorNoiseDataPointsFilter

Add a 1D descriptor named that would represent the noise radius expressed in meter based on SICK LMS specifications [4].

sensorType (default: 0) - Type of the sensor used. Choices: 0=Sick LMS-1xx, 1=Hokuyo URG-04LX, 2=Hokuyo UTM-30LX, 3=Kinect/Xtion - min: 0 - max: 2147483647
gain (default: 1) - If the point cloud is coming from an untrusty source, you can use the gain to augment the uncertainty - min: 1 - max: inf

SurfaceNormalDataPointsFilter

This filter extracts the surface normal vector and other statistics to each point by taking the eigenvector corresponding to the smallest eigenvalue of its nearest neighbors.

Required descriptors: none. Produced descritors: normals(optional), densities(optional), eigValues(optional), eigVectors(optional), matchedIds (optional), meanDists(optional). Altered descriptors: none. Altered features: none.

knn (default: 5) - number of nearest neighbors to consider, including the point itself - min: 3 - max: 2147483647
maxDist (default: inf) - maximum distance to consider for neighbors - min: 0 - max: inf
epsilon (default: 0) - approximation to use for the nearest-neighbor search - min: 0 - max: inf
keepNormals (default: 1) - whether the normals should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepDensities (default: 0) - whether the point densities should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenValues (default: 0) - whether the eigen values should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepEigenVectors (default: 0) - whether the eigen vectors should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepMatchedIds (default: 0) - whether the identifiers of matches points should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
keepMeanDist (default: 0) - whether the distance to the nearest neighbor mean should be added as descriptors to the resulting cloud
sortEigen (default: 0) - whether the eigenvalues and eigenvectors should be sorted (ascending) based on the eigenvalues
smoothNormals (default: 0) - whether the normal vector should be average with the nearest neighbors

VoxelGridDataPointsFilter

Construct Voxel grid of the point cloud. Down-sample by taking centroid or center of grid cells.

vSizeX (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in x direction - min: 0.001 - max: +inf
vSizeY (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in y direction - min: 0.001 - max: +inf
vSizeZ (default: 1.0) - Dimension of each voxel cell in z direction - min: 0.001 - max: +inf
useCentroid (default: 1) - If 1 (true), down-sample by using centroid of voxel cell. If false (0), use center of voxel cell. - min: 0 - max: 1
averageExistingDescriptors (default: 1) - whether the filter keep the existing point descriptors and average them or should it drop them - min: 0 - max: 1

Matcher

KDTreeMatcher

This matcher matches a point from the reading to its closest neighbors in the reference.

knn (default: 1) - number of nearest neighbors to consider it the reference - min: 1 - max: 2147483647
epsilon (default: 0) - approximation to use for the nearest-neighbor search - min: 0 - max: inf
searchType (default: 1) - Nabo search type. 0: brute force, check distance to every point in the data (very slow), 1: kd-tree with linear heap, good for small knn (~up to 30) and 2: kd-tree with tree heap, good for large knn (~from 30) - min: 0 - max: 2
maxDist (default: inf) - maximum distance to consider for neighbors - min: 0 - max: inf

KDTreeVarDistMatcher

This matcher matches a point from the reading to its closest neighbors in the reference. A maximum search radius per point can be defined.

knn (default: 1) - number of nearest neighbors to consider it the reference - min: 1 - max: 2147483647
epsilon (default: 0) - approximation to use for the nearest-neighbor search - min: 0 - max: inf
searchType (default: 1) - Nabo search type. 0: brute force, check distance to every point in the data (very slow), 1: kd-tree with linear heap, good for small knn (~up to 30) and 2: kd-tree with tree heap, good for large knn (~from 30) - min: 0 - max: 2
maxDistField (default: maxSearchDist) - descriptor field name used to set a maximum distance to consider for neighbors per point

NullMatcher

Does nothing, returns no match.

OutlierFilter

GenericDescriptorOutlierFilter

This filter weights matched points based on a 1D descriptor of either a single point cloud (either the reference or the reading). The descriptor values must be larger than zero.

source (default: reference) - Point cloud from which the descriptor will be used: reference or reading
descName (default: none) - Descriptor name used to weight paired points
useSoftThreshold (default: 0) - If set to 1 (true), uses the value of the descriptor as a weight. If set to 0 (false), uses the parameter ‘threshold’ to set binary weights. - min: 0 - max: 1
useLargerThan (default: 1) - If set to 1 (true), values over the ‘threshold’ will have a weight of one. If set to 0 (false), values under the ‘threshold’ will have a weight of one. All other values will have a weight of zero. - min: 0 - max: 1
threshold (default: 0.1) - Value used to determine the binary weights - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

MaxDistOutlierFilter

This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are above a fix threshold.

maxDist (default: 1) - threshold distance (Euclidean norm) - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

MedianDistOutlierFilter

This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are above the median link norms times a factor. Based on [5].

factor (default: 3) - points farther away factor * median will be considered outliers. - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

MinDistOutlierFilter

This filter considers as outlier links whose norms are below a threshold.

minDist (default: 1) - threshold distance (Euclidean norm) - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf

NullOutlierFilter Does nothing.

RobustOutlierFilter

Robust weight function. 8 robust functions to choose from (Cauchy, Welsch, Switchable Constraint, Geman-McClure, Tukey, Huber, L1 and Student). All the functions are M-Estimator (\cite{RobustWeightFunctions}) except L1 and Student.

robustFct (default: cauchy) - Type of robust function used. Available fct: ‘cauchy’, ‘welsch’, ‘sc’(aka Switchable-Constraint), ‘gm’ (aka Geman-McClure), ‘tukey’, ‘huber’ and ‘L1’. (Default: cauchy)
tuning (default: 1.0) - Tuning parameter used to limit the influence of outliers.If the ‘scaleEstimator’ is ‘mad’ or ‘none’, this parameter acts as the tuning parameter.If the ‘scaleEstimator’ is ‘berg’ this parameter acts as the target scale (σ*). - min: 0.0000001 - max: inf
scaleEstimator (default: mad) - The scale estimator is used to convert the error distance into a Mahalanobis distance. 3 estimators are available: ‘none’: no estimator (scale = 1), ‘mad’: use the median of absolute deviation (a kind of robust standard deviation), ‘berg’: an iterative exponentially decreasing estimator
nbIterationForScale (default: 0) - For how many iteration the ‘scaleEstimator’ is recalculated. After ‘nbIterationForScale’ iteration the previous scale is kept. A nbIterationForScale==0 means that the estiamtor is recalculated at each iteration. - min: 0 - max: 100
distanceType (default: point2point) - Type of error distance used, either point to point (‘point2point’) or point to plane(‘point2plane’). Point to point gives better result normally.
approximation (default: inf) - If the matched distance is larger than this threshold, its weight will be forced to zero. This can save computation as zero values are not minimized. If set to inf (default value), no approximation is done. The unit of this parameter is the same as the distance used, typically meters. - min: 0.0 - max: inf

SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter

Hard rejection threshold using the angle between the surface normal vector of the reading and the reference. If normal vectors or not in the descriptor for both of the point clouds, does nothing.

maxAngle (default: 1.57) - Maximum authorised angle between the 2 surface normals (in radian) - min: 0.0 - max: 3.1416

TrimmedDistOutlierFilter

Hard rejection threshold using quantile. This filter considers as inlier a certain percentage of the links with the smallest norms. Based on [6].

ratio (default: 0.85) - percentage to keep - min: 0.0000001 - max: 1.0

VarTrimmedDistOutlierFilter

Hard rejection threshold using quantile and variable ratio. Based on [7].

minRatio (default: 0.05) - min ratio - min: 0.0000001 - max: 1
maxRatio (default: 0.99) - max ratio - min: 0.0000001 - max: 1
lambda (default: 2.35) - lambda (part of the term that balance the rmsd: 1/ratio^lambda

ErrorMinimizer

IdentityErrorMinimizer

Does nothing.

PointToPlaneErrorMinimizer

Point-to-plane error (or point-to-line in 2D). Per [8].

force2D (default: 0) - If set to true(1), the minimization will be force to give a solution in 2D (i.e., on the XY-plane) even with 3D inputs. - min: 0 - max: 1

PointToPlaneWithCovErrorMinimizer

Point-to-plane error (or point-to-line in 2D). Based on [8]. Covariance estimation based on [9].

force2D (default: 0) - If set to true(1), the minimization will be force to give a solution in 2D (i.e., on the XY-plane) even with 3D inputs. - min: 0 - max: 1
sensorStdDev (default: 0.01) - sensor standard deviation - min: 0. - max: inf

PointToPointErrorMinimizer

Point-to-point error. Based on SVD decomposition. Per [10].

PointToPointSimilarityErrorMinimizer

Point-to-point similarity error (rotation + translation + scale). The scale is the same for all coordinates. Based on SVD decomposition. Per [11].

PointToPointWithCovErrorMinimizer

Point-to-point error. Based on SVD decomposition. Based on [10]. Covariance estimation based on [9].

sensorStdDev (default: 0.01) - sensor standard deviation - min: 0. - max: inf

TransformationChecker

BoundTransformationChecker

This checker stops the ICP loop with an exception when the transformation values exceed bounds.

maxRotationNorm (default: 1) - rotation bound - min: 0 - max: inf
maxTranslationNorm (default: 1) - translation bound - min: 0 - max: inf

CounterTransformationChecker

This checker stops the ICP loop after a certain number of iterations.

maxIterationCount (default: 40) - maximum number of iterations - min: 0 - max: 2147483647

DifferentialTransformationChecker

This checker stops the ICP loop when the relative motions (i.e. abs(currentIter - lastIter)) of rotation and translation components are below a fix thresholds. This allows to stop the iteration when the point cloud is stabilized. Smoothing can be applied to avoid oscillations. Inspired by [6].

minDiffRotErr (default: 0.001) - threshold for rotation error (radian) - min: 0. - max: 6.2831854
minDiffTransErr (default: 0.001) - threshold for translation error - min: 0. - max: inf
smoothLength (default: 3) - number of iterations over which to average the differencial error - min: 0 - max: 2147483647

Inspector

NullInspector

Does nothing.

PerformanceInspector

Keep statistics on performance.

baseFileName (default: ) - base file name for the statistics files (if empty, disabled)
dumpPerfOnExit (default: 0) - dump performance statistics to stderr on exit
dumpStats (default: 0) - dump the statistics on first and last step

VTKFileInspector

Dump the different steps into VTK files.

baseFileName (default: point-matcher-output) - base file name for the VTK files
dumpPerfOnExit (default: 0) - dump performance statistics to stderr on exit
dumpStats (default: 0) - dump the statistics on first and last step
dumpIterationInfo (default: 0) - dump iteration info
dumpDataLinks (default: 0) - dump data links at each iteration
dumpReading (default: 0) - dump the reading cloud at each iteration
dumpReference (default: 0) - dump the reference cloud at each iteration
writeBinary (default: 0) - write binary VTK files

Logger

FileLogger

Log using std::stream.

infoFileName (default: ) - name of the file to output infos to, or an empty string to output infos to the standard output stream
warningFileName (default: ) - name of the file to output warnings to, or an empty string to output warnings to the standard error stream
displayLocation (default: 0) - display the location of message in source code

NullLogger

Does not log anything.

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