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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...

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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/...

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