Now, what countries have the patent issues with the SIFT algorithm? Is
it only the US? I haven't been able to figure out if it applies to
Sweden, but if it doesn't, I might have some webspace available. Maybe
I can finally bring something back to the community...

On Oct 16, 1:01 pm, Henk Tijdink <h.tijd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because I don't have webspace I can't make my own build Autopano-SIFT-
> C 2.5.1 available for download. It has both autopano-SIFT-C.exe and
> the generatekeys.exe and autopano.exe for the two step detector in it.
> If someone has webspace in a country that don't infringe the possible
> patent issues with the SIFT algorithm, I'm glad to send the binaries
> to him for making it available to the Hugin community.
>
> Kind regards,
> Henk Tijdink
>
> On 16 okt, 04:09, Matthew Petroff <matt...@mpetroff.net> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 15, 10:47 am, Aron H <aron.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Yes, that's the problem. Hugin should be a native x64 application, so
> > > it should install in C:/Program Files/, not C:/Program Files (x86)/
>
> > Sorry, I forgot to change the installation directory when creating the
> > 64-bit installer. An updated version is available 
> > here:http://www.box.net/shared/pv7vn53qza
>
> > > I also check the 'Clean registry settings' box, and checked all the CP
> > > detectors, and my default CP detector ended up as align_image_stack,
> > > which won't produce panoramas, right? Can we make the default the same
> > > as other platforms? Panomatic or Autopano-sift-c?
>
> > The defaults are hard coded into Hugin and have nothing to do with the
> > installer. Not only does Hugin default to align_image_stack but none
> > of the other control point generators work as the paths to them are
> > broken. I may try to fix this for the next release with new registry
> > entries, but this isn't going to change for the current release.
>
> > > It's also still downloading Autopano-sift-C 2.5.2, which I guess
> > > hasn't been resolved yet?
>
> > Until someone makes a binary available that the installer can link to,
> > this will not be changed as I am not going to build, upload, or host a
> > binary since SIFT is patented. If someone makes a binary available
> > that the installer is able to download (the installer is unable to
> > download Henk's link as there is a landing page) I will gladly update
> > the installer.
>
> > Matthew
>
>

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