Upon reading a bit further in the same OpenCV thread, I found a mention of different, possibly less patent-restricted algorithms [5]. Could be interesting! Further investigation needed...
[5] http://n2.nabble.com/SURF-protected-by-patent-tp3458734p3463927.html -- Bart On 23 dec, 13:59, Bart van Andel <bavanan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 dec, 04:46, DaveN <tahoedave...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From the SURF page (interesting that the SURF page says it is > > copyrighted but there is no mention of a patent) > > I checked the files they provide, and those contain a LICENSE file, > which I'll quote below. Indeed nothing is mentioned about patents > anywhere. I've checked 2 papers on the subject [0-1]: nothing there > either, nor is it mentioned on the Wikipedia page [2]. On an OpenCV > discussion [3] however I found a link to a page that show that indeed > there is a patent [4] (full text available from that site, upper > right). > > [0]ftp://ftp.vision.ee.ethz.ch/publications/articles/eth_biwi_00517.pdf > [1]http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~surf/eccv06.pdf > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURF > [3]http://n2.nabble.com/SURF-protected-by-patent-td3458734.html > [4]http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=EP&NR=2027558A2&;... > > -- > Bart > > ----- > LICENSE CONDITIONS > > Copyright (2006): ETH Zurich, Switzerland > Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium > All rights reserved. > > For details, see the paper: > Herbert Bay, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool, > "SURF: Speeded Up Robust Features" > Proceedings of the ninth European Conference on Computer Vision, May > 2006 > > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and > its documentation for educational, research, and non-commercial > purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is > hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this > paragraph appear in all copies modifications, and distributions. > > Any commercial use or any redistribution of this software > requires a license from one of the above mentioned establishments. > > For further details, contact Andreas Ess (....@vision.ee.ethz.ch). > ----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
