% *  This code was used in the following articles:
% *  [1] Learning 3-D Scene Structure from a Single Still Image, 
% *      Ashutosh Saxena, Min Sun, Andrew Y. Ng, 
% *      In ICCV workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-07), 2007.
% *      (best paper)
% *  [2] 3-D Reconstruction from Sparse Views using Monocular Vision, 
% *      Ashutosh Saxena, Min Sun, Andrew Y. Ng, 
% *      In ICCV workshop on Virtual Representations and Modeling 
% *      of Large-scale environments (VRML), 2007. 
% *  [3] 3-D Depth Reconstruction from a Single Still Image, 
% *      Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, Andrew Y. Ng. 
% *      International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Aug 2007. 
% *  [6] Learning Depth from Single Monocular Images, 
% *      Ashutosh Saxena, Sung H. Chung, Andrew Y. Ng. 
% *      In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 18, 2005.
% *
% *  These articles are available at:
% *  http://make3d.stanford.edu/publications
% * 
% *  We request that you cite the papers [1], [3] and [6] in any of
% *  your reports that uses this code. 
% *  Further, if you use the code in image3dstiching/ (multiple image version),
% *  then please cite [2].
% *  
% *  If you use the code in third_party/, then PLEASE CITE and follow the
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function [f] = readSurf(file, dir, Type)
% This function reads in surf features and matches for a pair of images.
% file1/2 contain the features,  contians the matches.
% if dir is passed, find the featues at dir/surf/file1.surf
% and matches at dir/surf_matches/file1-file2.match

if nargin < 3
    Type = '';
end

% initialize surf1 surf2 and
surf = [dir '/surf/' file '.surf' Type];


% read in first set of features
f = fopen(surf);
g = fgetl(f); %skip first 2 lines
features = str2num(g)+5; % dynamic deciding features length from data
g = fgetl(f);
%70xnumPoints, xy positions are points(1:2, :) for SURF-64
%134xnumPoints, xy positions are points(1:2, :) for SURF-128
frames = fscanf(f, '%f', [features, inf]); 
fclose(f);

f = frames(1:2, :);

return;