realsenseai/librealsense
RealSense SDK
About the project
Cross-platform SDK for RealSense depth cameras: depth and color streaming, calibration intrinsics/extrinsics, with wrappers for C++, Python, C#, ROS 2 and REST. Used in robotics, 3D scanning and computer vision.
Useful for
- Run RealSense Viewer to tune streams and record camera data
- Read pixel distance via pyrealsense2 in a Python script
- Build the SDK from source on Linux for a ROS 2 project
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 4 stars so far today, about 5 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #19, +6 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 9,026
- Stars in a day
- 5
- Forks
- 5,041
- Issues and pull requests
- 15,509
- Watchers
- 280
- Language
- C++
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v2.58.4 · August 30, 2026
- Created
- November 17, 2015
- Last push
- September 17, 2026
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- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #19, +6 stars
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #23, +1 star
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #23, +1 star
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