SIFT module for UIPF SfM

Install

TBD

This module uses the binary file provided by David Loewe. This binary is compiled on a 32bit system (i.e. i386 architecture). If you want to run this binary on a 64bit system you may get the following error:

bash: ./uipf-sfm-sift: No such file or directory

Even though the file exists, this error occurs because you are missing multiarch support on your system.

See the following ressources for enabling multiarch support:

• Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
• Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM USES OTHER CODE THAT IS PROTECTED BY PATENT!

You may not be allowed to use it without explicit permission! Please refer to the following website for license details and contact information: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/keypoints/

TODO

Reimplement this based on one of the following:

• https://robwhess.github.io/opensift/.
• http://vision.ucla.edu/~vedaldi/code/siftpp.html.