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If you end up implementing your own linear Hough Transform extraction code, I'd avoid the point cloud message entirely. Because the Hough Transform you'd want to implement is inherently polar in nature it can be calculated faster if you keep the polar coordinates you get from the laser scan instead of converting them to Cartesian coordinates.

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