This repository contains the source code by Prof. Dr. Juergen Gall, released under the Microsoft Research Shared Source License Agreement http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~gall/projects/houghforest/data/MSR-SSLA.txt

The source code was downloaded from http://www.iai.uni-bonn.de/~gall/projects/houghforest/houghforest.html

Author: Juergen Gall, BIWI, ETH Zurich Email: [email protected]

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When using this software, please acknowledge the effort that went into development by referencing the paper:

Gall J. and Lempitsky V., Class-Specific Hough Forests for Object Detection, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'09), 2009.

Note that this is not the original software that was used for the paper mentioned above. It is a re-implementation for Linux.