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As the person who wrote the OpenCV Python bindings, this makes me inordinately happy.

Hey, thank you for that code! Your OpenCV bindings made more than one appearance at PyCon this year. I used it in my "Angry Birds playing robot". Thank you, thank you, thank you! http://pyvideo.org/video/683/building-a-robot-that-can-play-...

I don't say this enough to people like you, so THANK YOU SO MUCH!

As a person who used those bindings in a couple of projects (this includes tutoring the computer vision course at uni) I will use this opportunity to say thanks.

I imagine the team behind Kinect feels the same way when lightsaber-anything gets made.

Awesome, I have been using the your work a lot recently. I do have one question though, is SIFT available in the python bindings? I have not been able to find it.

Thanks for contributing your time, it has made my life much easier.

For SIFT computation, I recommend VLFeat[1], which there are some python bindings for[2] (although I haven't tried them myself).

[1] http://www.vlfeat.org/

[2] http://www.janeriksolem.net/2011/06/another-python-interface...

Jan Erik is an outstanding guy. He has helped me through a couple of rough spots. The OpenCV python bindings for SIFT don't seem to work (or exist). The ones for ORB work really well. Here is an example: https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV/blob/master/SimpleCV/...

A colleague of mine is developping a Cython (and OpenMP) based sift wrapper. It's available here: https://github.com/kif/imageAlignment

It's already used for alignment of X-ray images.

Thanks! You definitely made things much easier for me. I had also played around doing some raw ctypes work with OpenCV and now greatly appreciate your efforts.

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