%0 Journal Article %T siftservice.com - Turning a Computer Vision algorithm into a World Wide Web Service %A Ahmad Pahlavan Tafti %A Hamid Hassannia %A Zeyun Yu %J Computer Science %D 2015 %I arXiv %X Image features detection and description is a longstanding topic in computer vision and pattern recognition areas. The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is probably the most popular and widely demanded feature descriptor which facilitates a variety of computer vision applications such as image registration, object tracking, image forgery detection, and 3D surface reconstruction. This work introduces a Software as a Service (SaaS) based implementation of the SIFT algorithm which is freely available at http://siftservice.com for any academic, educational and research purposes. The service provides application-to-application interaction and aims Rapid Application Development (RAD) and also fast prototyping for computer vision students and researchers all around the world. An Internet connection is all they need! %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02840v1