# Grounded Counting License Information

## Upstream Material

`grounded_counting/images/` and the IOCfish5K source annotation information
represented in `grounded_counting/annotations/` originate from IOCfish5K.

The IOCfish5K authors state that IOCfish5K and IOCfish5K-D are licensed under
the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
(CC BY-NC 4.0):

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Official project:

https://github.com/GuoleiSun/Indiscernible-Object-Counting

Commercial use requires separate permission from the IOCfish5K authors.

The IOCfish5K-covered upstream material in this component includes the source
images, source point annotations, and the byte-for-byte original split
manifests under `metadata/splits/iocfish5k_original/`.

## Nereus Additions

Nereus-authored task enrichments, QA data, metadata, and documentation in this
component are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0, subject to the IOCfish5K terms that
continue to apply to the underlying images and source annotations.

## Required Attribution

Retain this file and the repository's root `NOTICE` and
`THIRD_PARTY_SOURCES.md`. Cite:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{sun2023indiscernible,
  title={Indiscernible Object Counting in Underwater Scenes},
  author={Sun, Guolei and An, Zhaochong and Liu, Yun and Liu, Ce and
          Sakaridis, Christos and Fan, Deng-Ping and Van Gool, Luc},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and
             Pattern Recognition},
  year={2023}
}
```

When redistributing modified annotations or QA data, identify Nereus as the
source of the derived material, link to CC BY-NC 4.0, and state that changes
were made.

## No Additional Rights

This component license does not grant trademark, privacy, publicity, patent,
or commercial-use rights beyond those provided by the applicable licenses.