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-Surface Matching Algorithm Through 3D Features
-==============================================
+Point Pair Features for 3D Surface Matching
+===========================================
+
+Implements 3d object detection and localization using multimodal point pair features.
+http://docs.opencv.org/3.0-beta/modules/surface_matching/doc/surface_matching.html