Dear all, It works now. The problem was in the following line of code: pc.setKSearch(indices.size()); Since indices.size() (~ 50000 ) was too large, changing it to 10 (a more reasonable value) worked. Cheers, Hozefa Dear all, > > I am trying to estimate the curvature values of a point cloud using the > principal curvates estimation from PCL in the following way: > > 1. Get a point cloud. > 2. Compute the normals. > 3. Estimate the curvatures > > But my program hangs in step 3 and the compute() function my program calls > to estimate the curvatures does not return. I have attached the cpp file > herewith. Looking forward to your suggestions. > > > Cheers, > > Hozefa > -- Hozefa Indorewala BSc. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Jacobs University Bremen Campus Ring 1 | Bremen 28759 | Germany Email: h.indorewala@jacobs-university.de