Bug#734373: OpenCV: please build SIFT and SURF modules
Matthieu Tourne
matthieu.tourne at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 02:14:12 UTC 2014
Sorry, a little late to this conversation.
Could there be a package libopencv-nonfree-dev by any chance ?
SIFT and SURF are indeed patented, but there have been no patent disputes
so far.
Also there are a lot of other free invariant features detectors /
descriptors that one can use if patents become a real issue.
For now it is just convenient to use Sift as it works well in most cases.
Cheers,
Matthieu
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