How much effort went into writing TINA and why is the software open source?
We estimate that TINA currently embodies in excess of 75 man years of coordinated research effort. We feel that giving software away is the only way to provide a solid deliverable from our work. Good algorithms are never sufficiently specified in research papers for identical reimplementation. Ultimately we would like to reduce the amount of repetition in machine vision research and improve the quality of algorithmic evaluation by setting this trend. One other reason is far more alturistic (or is it Richard Dawkins?). Our research is funded by the people of the UK and Europe and it seems only fair that they get the chance to utilise some of the results.
