From 6cb32f6d7b4d3a39555abccf2e20a56d5f852ec4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin <102535177+rxba@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:50:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Warn if projection of point cloud with no positions attribute
 to image (#6880)

---
 CHANGELOG.md                         |  1 +
 cpp/open3d/t/geometry/PointCloud.cpp | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 98836909e7a..829d890ef53 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 -   Add O3DVisualizer API to enable collapse control of verts in the side panel (PR #6865)
 -   Split pybind declarations/definitions to avoid C++ types in Python docs (PR #6869)
 -   Fix minimal oriented bounding box of MeshBase derived classes and add new unit tests (PR #6898)
+-   Fix projection of point cloud to Depth/RGBD image if no position attribute is provided (PR #6880)
 
 ## 0.13
 
diff --git a/cpp/open3d/t/geometry/PointCloud.cpp b/cpp/open3d/t/geometry/PointCloud.cpp
index f4c5b47f068..b345e0ea985 100644
--- a/cpp/open3d/t/geometry/PointCloud.cpp
+++ b/cpp/open3d/t/geometry/PointCloud.cpp
@@ -983,6 +983,12 @@ geometry::Image PointCloud::ProjectToDepthImage(int width,
                                                 const core::Tensor &extrinsics,
                                                 float depth_scale,
                                                 float depth_max) {
+    if (!HasPointPositions()) {
+        utility::LogWarning(
+                "Called ProjectToDepthImage on a point cloud with no Positions "
+                "attribute. Returning empty image.");
+        return geometry::Image();
+    }
     core::AssertTensorShape(intrinsics, {3, 3});
     core::AssertTensorShape(extrinsics, {4, 4});
 
@@ -1001,6 +1007,12 @@ geometry::RGBDImage PointCloud::ProjectToRGBDImage(
         const core::Tensor &extrinsics,
         float depth_scale,
         float depth_max) {
+    if (!HasPointPositions()) {
+        utility::LogWarning(
+                "Called ProjectToRGBDImage on a point cloud with no Positions "
+                "attribute. Returning empty image.");
+        return geometry::RGBDImage();
+    }
     if (!HasPointColors()) {
         utility::LogError(
                 "Unable to project to RGBD without the Color attribute in the "