Orientation of point clouds obtained by Kinect?

> I'm extracting point clouds in PCD file format using Kinect sensor. My
> problem is that while the point cloud image I obtain is good, when I view it
> in pcd_viewer I get an image that is vertically flipped by 180 degrees. Like
> below[with a bottle as the object]:
>
> http://www.pcl-users.org/file/n3840467/flipped.png
>
> So I flipped the Kinect instead and now I get a normal straight pcd file,
> Like below [with a box and a bottle]:
>
> http://www.pcl-users.org/file/n3840467/normal.png
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks.
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> Hi,
>
> just try the key combination ALT + r. This should place the vtk camera to the pose given by the sensor
> origin/orientation in the point cloud.
>
> -Suat
>
> On 03/19/2012 02:44 PM, PriyankaP wrote:
>> I'm extracting point clouds in PCD file format using Kinect sensor. My
>> problem is that while the point cloud image I obtain is good, when I view it
>> in pcd_viewer I get an image that is vertically flipped by 180 degrees. Like
>> below[with a bottle as the object]:
>>
>> http://www.pcl-users.org/file/n3840467/flipped.png
>>
>> So I flipped the Kinect instead and now I get a normal straight pcd file,
>> Like below [with a box and a bottle]:
>>
>> http://www.pcl-users.org/file/n3840467/normal.png
>>
>> Is there something I'm doing wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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> I also have this problem. Images are flipped top down, as someone used  flipud.m of matlab. I see that in the last
> ouptut visualization image of the "cluster recognition and 6DOF pose estimation using VFH descriptors" tutorial.
> I am using PCL-1.5.1 version and my platform is Windows7,64Bit
>
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Ivan Silva <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     I also get the problem after updating to ubuntu 12.04.. ALT+R don't fixe the
>     problem!
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