Hi, Pavel, Thanks for your suggestion very much, I have written a thin API of enroll/capture/verification layer upon NBIS mindtct/nfiq/bozorth3 now, and it works quite well, I'll finish the Qt GUI for it today.
Hi, Daniel, Your intention to advocate open source in biometrics industry is well appreciated by me and I guess most other developers, an open minded but not open sourced guy mostly, but I think you should be more pragmatic but idealistic to this problem, not to be another RMS but to be another Linus Torvalds is better for the community IMHO. I respect RMS for his fight for evil desires of somebody in the world, but I think we should keep the ideology in context, you should fight with the real enemy but the enemy in your imagination. In biometrics, the chip vendors are accustomed to closed source as they invest a lot on R&D, they are not your enemy, the enemy is the one who want to steal the code of fprint and the SDK of the biometrics company and do a illegal rewrite of fprint and then distribute the product to customers to profit (such as me now if i do as I planned in the beginning). You can't fight with biometrics company now given the small adoption rate of fprint, you can only hope to adapt to them to gain more users, and one day when there're millions fprint users, the biometrics company will contact you to donate or write open source drivers for fprint themselves. Just my kind suggestion, in the purpose to advocate fprint and open source and benevolence to humanity in general. To All: On my Samsung S3C2410 SoC, the mindtct needs about 13 to 15 seconds to process a 256x256 image, and bozorth3 needs at most about 17 seconds for a match, i have not profiled the detail of time cost, and my final board use the FS90 with 300x440 image (I have no FS90 device in hand, so i test by sample pictures downloaded from online now, I finally remote debug on my client's machine to work on a real FS90), so I think the time will be even longer to be a little unbearable for end users, 15 seconds for enroll, 17 seconds for verification, who can bear this? Anybody give me suggestion if and how can i optimize mindtct and bozorth3 to be much quicker? Thanks, izico http://izico.appspot.com 2009/10/1 Daniel Drake <[email protected]>: > Izico Chang wrote: >> >> I plan to write a FS90 driver to wrap the closed source FS90 SDK >> inside, is there any legal issue to do this way? I know your code is >> LGPL. > > Yes, LGPL means that you cannot link in that proprietary code. You would > have to do it as a separate app, which is called by a new (written by you) > libfprint driver. > > However, such code would not be accepted into libfprint (which is only > interested in open code) and would be rejected by all major Linux > distributions (due to the inclusion of proprietary software). > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
