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BlackShark.ai Software – 2022, all rights reserved, hereinafter "the Software".

This software has been developed by researchers of ICG and BlackShark.ai.

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8010 Graz, Austria

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8010 Graz, Austria

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The Software is still being currently developed. It is the BlackShark.ai's aim for the Software 
to be used by the scientific community so as to test it and, evaluate it so that BlackShark.ai may improve it.

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to use the Software for research purposes for a period of one (1) year from the date of the download 
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to appreciate the adequacy between of the Software and his needs and to undertake all necessary 
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The Software is provided only as a source.

In case of using the Software for a publication or other results obtained through the use of the Software, 
user should cite the Software as follows :

@article{zorzi2021polyworld,
  title={PolyWorld: Polygonal Building Extraction with Graph Neural Networks in Satellite Images},
  author={Zorzi, Stefano and Bazrafkan, Shabab and Habenschuss, Stefan and Fraundorfer, Friedrich},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.15491},
  year={2021}
}

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his or her remarks as to the use of the Software.

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