On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:53 PM, abid rahman <abidrahman2@gmail.com> wrote:

So I think SWT is patented, isn't it?

I'm not sure--I would like to contact the researchers in Microsoft to get clarity (or perhaps someone would volunteer to do so?)

I wonder if implementation of this paper is considered to be a GSoC project, I would like to work on it.

I think so--the goal is text detection, not to implement any specific algorithm (I updated the project description to include this paper).

Another question : What is the status of SIMD optimization in scikit-image? Does Cython support such kind of optimization works? Is there any SIMD optimized functions available in scikit-image?

These are the only vectorized ops we have: https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/blob/master/skimage/_shared/vec... Stéfan