SuperPoint_SLAM VS openvslam

Hi everyone, I am trying to implement a VSLAM with DNN specifically the Feature Extraction module in the SLAM pipeline. Something on the lines of this repo Superpoint_SLAM , which integrates SuperPoint Feature extraction into ORB_SLAM2

As you've mentioned, there are many papers on deep local feature extraction, like SuperPoint and R2D2. If you wish to use them in SLAM, you can simply replace the feature extraction module in the existing SLAM system with the deep local feature method. An example is shown here - this system uses SuperPoint as local features instead of ORB features in the original ORB-SLAM 2 pipeline. https://github.com/KinglittleQ/SuperPoint_SLAM

This might be the case. However there is an additional risk and process component:

- you might not want to risk because you don't have lawyers etc in your company.

- even if you have lawyers etc in your company, if there are 2 alternatives one which is just an MIT license, you'll probably go for that one because you don't want to have a 1.5 month review of the use of this AGPL licensed alternative.

In general things like this https://github.com/xdspacelab/openvslam/wiki/Termination-of-... (repo with 3k stars), an effort terminated because of some traces of GPL code MIGHT be somewhere in there comes to light. Even though Grafana etc are mostly tools, for my startup I would probably not risk any of this (for my own sake and also for any kind of due diligence in case it ever gets acquired)

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