Cascade Classifier in commercial app

asked 2012-11-24 07:56:43 -0600

CS
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Hello,

I have a question regarding "Haar Feature-based Cascade Classifier for Object Detection". Is it possible to use CascadeClassifier class in closed code and commercial project (e.g. CascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale function), including haarcascade_*.xml files distributed with OpenCV? Is it free for commercial use? I mean, no patent restrictions, etc.? This is not clearly explained anywhere. Please, give some feedback on that issue.

Thanks in advance!

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answered 2012-11-26 04:15:47 -0600

Mahdi

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Hi, from opencv homepage:

OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use.

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answered 2012-11-26 08:11:45 -0600

sanok
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It depends on country. Despite OpenCV itself is under BSD licence, some algorithms are patented hence there are limitation on using it in countries where algorithms can be patented (USA for example).

But Haar Feature-based Cascade Classifier seems to be free everywhere.

See for example: http://docs.opencv.org/modules/nonfree/doc/nonfree.html

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Thanks. So all other algorithms (except those from non-free module) are free to use in academic and commercial applications? So the library itself is not whole BSD licensed?

I would like to use Haar Feature-based Cascade Classifier in my application as a base for other transformations. Those pre-trained files distributed with OpenCV work good for me, and I don't want to "reinvent the wheel" if I could just use them.

CS ( 2012-11-27 12:35:41 -0600 )edit

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