[Insight-users] SIFT/feature based registration in ITK?

[Michael Mai]

See http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/ITK_Patent_Bazaar for answer.
Summarized: Unfortunately no, even non-commercial research have to obey patents.

Michael

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: insight-users-bounces at itk.org [mailto:insight-users-bounces at itk.org] Im Auftrag von Rupin
Gesendet: Freitag, 20. November 2009 00:44
An: insight-users at itk.org
Betreff: Re: [Insight-users] SIFT/feature based registration in ITK?

Are you not allowed to use patented methods for non-commercial research !?!

Rupin

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:45:22 -0800, Torsten Rohlfing
<torsten at synapse.sri.com> wrote:

> Another reason for lack of motivation to implement SIFT in ITK might
> also be that SIFT is patented.
>
>> Someone mentioned off list that they are slowly working on writing
>> SIFT for ITK - has there really been no past effort like this? Is the
>> idea that ITK deals mainly with medical images and intensity based
>> registration is typically fine for those?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>>
>



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