// use an approximation for the nfa calculations (faster)
return-1*(int)NFA(N,k,(double)sigma,0);
CV_UNUSED(sigma);CV_UNUSED(k);CV_UNUSED(N);
CV_Error(Error::StsNotImplemented,"text: NFA computation code has been removed due license conflict. Details: https://github.com/opencv/opencv_contrib/issues/2235");