Kintinuous

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WE (The National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland (NUIM) and the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, U.S.A. (MIT)) ARE

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SOFTWARE AND PATENT LICENSE AGREEMENT


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non-sub-licensable patent license (the "Patent License") to use the Kintinuous patent, including

any modification, part or derivative (the "Patent").

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Patent.

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Republic of Ireland whose courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes which may

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enforceability or validity of the remaining parts.


Schedule 1


The Software

Kintinuous is a real-time dense visual SLAM system capable of producing high quality globally

consistent point and mesh reconstructions over hundreds of metres in real-time with only a low-cost

commodity RGB-D sensor. It is based on the techniques described in the following publications:

Real-time Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM with Volumetric Fusion, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, H.

Johannsson, M.F. Fallon, J. J. Leonard and J.B. McDonald, IJRR '14

Deformation-based Loop Closure for Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, J.J.

Leonard, and J.B. McDonald, IROS '13

Robust Real-Time Visual Odometry for Dense RGB-D Mapping, T. Whelan, H. Johannsson, M. Kaess,

J.J. Leonard, and J.B. McDonald, ICRA '13

Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, M.F. Fallon, H. Johannsson,

J. J. Leonard and J.B. McDonald, RSS RGB-D Workshop '12

A method and system for mapping an environment, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, J.J. Leonard and J.B.

McDonald, PCT/EP2014/058079, WO/2014/202258. Filed 22/04/2014, published 24/12/2014


The Patent

The Kintinuous Software embodies technology for which patent protection has been applied for see

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2014202258.


Copyright Notice

This file is part of Kintinuous.

Copyright (C) 2015 The National University of Ireland Maynooth and Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

The use of the code within this file and all code within files that make up the software that is

Kintinuous is permitted for non-commercial purposes only. The full terms and conditions that apply

to the code within this file are detailed within the LICENSE.txt file and at

http://www.cs.nuim.ie/research/vision/data/kintinuous/code.php unless explicitly stated. By

downloading this file you agree to comply with these terms.

If you wish to use any of this code for commercial purposes then please email

commercialisation@nuim.ie.


Acknowledgements

If You use the Software or the Patent then You should reference the following papers in any

publication:

Real-time Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM with Volumetric Fusion, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, H.

Johannsson, M.F. Fallon, J. J. Leonard and J.B. McDonald, IJRR '14

Deformation-based Loop Closure for Large Scale Dense RGB-D SLAM, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, J.J.

Leonard, and J.B. McDonald, IROS '13

Robust Real-Time Visual Odometry for Dense RGB-D Mapping, T. Whelan, H. Johannsson, M. Kaess,

J.J. Leonard, and J.B. McDonald, ICRA '13

Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, M.F. Fallon, H. Johannsson,

J. J. Leonard and J.B. McDonald, RSS RGB-D Workshop '12

A method and system for mapping an environment, T. Whelan, M. Kaess, J.J. Leonard and J.B.

McDonald, PCT/EP2014/058079, WO/2014/202258. Filed 22/04/2014, published 24/12/2014


Code

Contact: thomas.j.whelan@nuim.ie