Searching for TOD, ending up at Ecto

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Hello ROS-users and developers,

I am getting a bit confused while searching for a possibly fresh and working version of TOD.

I guess these two are slightly old for me:

• http://www.ros.org/wiki/tod
• http://www.ros.org/wiki/textured_object_detection

These are said to be deprecated and unstable in different threads regarding this topic.

• http://www.ros.org/wiki/tod_training
• http://www.ros.org/wiki/tod_detecting

While all the above references: http://www.ros.org/wiki/object_recognition which consists of

• http://www.ros.org/wiki/object_recognition_core
• http://www.ros.org/wiki/object_recognition_server which are one could say highly underdocumented :) There is no documentation on that page but there is a reference to http://ecto.willowgarage.com/recognition.

Digging into the docs here for object_recognition might help: http://ecto.willowgarage.com/recognition/release/rc1/object_recognition/index.html

however I feel a bit confused now that I installed ros-electric-object_recognition which seems to include ecto and TOD related codes but have no idea how to start with it. Ok the documentations are there but they are a bit outdated and not really convenient for me.

I would appreciate any help either if someone can help me

1. by naming which to work with of the above (or none right now and wait for the ecto release) or
2. assemble a simple training&run with TOD or
3. providing a link to an updated "how to run TOD (ecto) for newbies" tutorial

Thx in advance :)