OpenCV-FFI "FAST" Keypoint Detector

Introduction

This Gem contains builds a native extension/plug-in to OpenCV-FFI which contains Edward Rosten's FAST feature detector.

Yes, I know OpenCV's C++ API provides a FAST function. I created this GEM partly as an experiment in adding 3rd-party code to the OpenCV-FFI space, and also to avoid having to write another set of C++-to-C wrappers. I have not run this code in parallel with the OpenCV code base, I do not know how they differ.

It includes the binary and a set of Ruby-space wrappers in the CVFFI::FAST module.

Most/all of this code was once in the main OpenCV-FFI project, but was moved out to give a semblance of modularity.

Acknowledgements and License

If you use this Gem for academic work, please be sure to cite Edward's papers as per the request on his page:

• Rosten, E. and Drummond T. "Machine learning for high-speed corner detection." European Conference on Computer Vision, 2006.

• Rosten, E. and Drummond, T. "Fusing points and lines for high performance tracking." IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005.

Both may be found here

The Gem itself is licensed under the MIT license.

As noted, Edward has released his source code under the BSD license:

Copyright (c) 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Edward Rosten All rights reserved.

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Copyright

Copyright (c) 2011 by Aaron Marburg