While researching some SIFT, SURF, and ORB implementations and support on Gentoo I came across a request for maintenance support for autopano-sift-c. I have been in contact with the Gentoo Proxy Maintainers about maintaining that and other packages in the portage tree.
While researching background I read that autopano-sift-c is a port of an original C# code base, but what is probably less well known is that the original C# code (circa 2004) does not appear to be available anymore, and the original developer of the C# code (Sebastian Nowozin) has no interest in maintaining it. Since it is a port of orphaned code I am not sure that maintaining autopano-sift-c is viable in the long term. I am exploring the following options, I can work with the hugin folks to maintain the original autopano-sift-c code, or I can work on modifying hugin to use a different library. For long term support and longevity, porting to use a different library would likely be the most maintainable, but before spending a bunch of time on this I would like to know if there would be support from both the developers and the community. No reason to waste your time or mine if that is a non-starter. If this is a viable option I would be interested to hear what other libraries that others have used and would interested to see supported. At the moment I am looking into OpenCL and OpenCV libraries, but am open to anything that is actively maintained and have a chance of being so in the long term. EBo -- -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/559e4983-f677-4553-a70b-c253df891248n%40googlegroups.com.
