Multi-Cue ISM Installation Instructions ======================================= General Information =================== This program, and all associated files or parts thereof, are made available exclusively for non-commercial research purposes. Any commercial use or resale of this software requires a license agreement with the author and the Computer Vision Group at RWTH Aachen. The code and binaries are under copyright protection. If you are interested in commercialization, please contact the author under the following email address: leibe@vision.rwth-aachen.de. Copyright Bastian Leibe, Computer Vision Group, RWTH Aachen, 2008-2012. Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 2006-2008. Multimodal Interactive Systems Group, TU Darmstadt, 2004-2005. Parts of the package may contain code that is copyrighted by other parties. In particular, the subdirectory "code" contains interest point detectors and region descriptors made available by Krystian Mikolajczyk (kma@robots.ox.ac.uk) for non-commercial research use. Intellectual property for those parts has to be respected, as well. Disclaimer ---------- THIS CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use at your own risk. Further Information ------------------- An explanation of the employed algorithms can be found in the following paper: Bastian Leibe, Ales Leonardis and Bernt Schiele, Robust Object Detection with Interleaved Categorization and Segmentation In International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol.77, No. 1-3, May 2008. Bastian Leibe, Krystian Mikolajczyk, and Bernt Schiele, Segmentation-Based Multi-Cue Integration for Object Detection In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC'06), 2006. Installation Instructions ========================= The provided archive contains all executables and libraries needed to run the ISM detector code. However, when first installing 1.) Create a symbolic link from "~/code" to the provided "code" subdirectory. This is required, so that the detector can find the feature extraction binaries. ln -s $PWD/code ~/code 2.) Download and install the provided detector codebooks from our web page (http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/bleibe/code/). It is recommended that all detector codebooks are installed in the same directory "~/codebooks" (or some other similarly accessible directory). Since the detector files still contain some references to absolute paths, it is necessary to run the provided script "prepare.sh" after installing a new batch of codebooks. This automatically adapts the stored paths. cd ~/codebooks ./prepare.sh 3.) Now, the detector binaries can be executed by running the script "start.sh". PLEASE SEE THE FILE "README.TXT" FOR DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO USE THE DETECTOR BINARIES!!! Feb 29, 2008 Bastian Leibe