siftservice.com - Turning a Computer Vision algorithm into a World Wide Web Service
This provides a convenient, web-based tool for computer vision students and researchers to accelerate prototyping, though it is incremental as it applies an existing method in a new service format.
The authors tackled the problem of making the SIFT algorithm accessible by implementing it as a web service, resulting in a freely available tool at siftservice.com for academic and research use.
Image features detection and description is a longstanding topic in computer vision and pattern recognition areas. The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is probably the most popular and widely demanded feature descriptor which facilitates a variety of computer vision applications such as image registration, object tracking, image forgery detection, and 3D surface reconstruction. This work introduces a Software as a Service (SaaS) based implementation of the SIFT algorithm which is freely available at http://siftservice.com for any academic, educational and research purposes. The service provides application-to-application interaction and aims Rapid Application Development (RAD) and also fast prototyping for computer vision students and researchers all around the world. An Internet connection is all they need!