New additions to the Computer Vision Homepage (Spring, 2004) (original) (raw)

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01/12/2004

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• Group: Federal University of Santa Catarina - Intelligent Industrial Systems Group (Sistemas Industriais Inteligentes) - Home-page of the Intelligent Industrial Systems group of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.
• Group: Hunter College, City University of New York - Computer Vision and Graphics Laboratory
• Group: U California Santa Barbara - Four Eyes Lab - Research in "imaging, interaction, and innovative interfaces" (four I's) - primary focus on computer vision, HCI, and augmented reality.
• Group: MIT - CS & AI Lab Vision Research
• Group: Ohio State U - Computer Vision Laboratory - Specializes in human activity analysis

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• Source_code: Philip Torr's stereo vision code - routines to generate corner matches between images guided by RANSAC and epipolar geometry, fundamental matrix estimation, synthetic data generation, trifocal tensor estimation, and more.

01/13/2004

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• Conference: British Machine Vision Conference 98 - The British Machine Vision Conference is the main UK conference for machine vision and related topics. Proceedings are online.
• Group: Technical University of Lisbon - Image Group
• Group: Cardiff U - Vision and Geometry Research Group - Specialises in machine vision, automated inspection, 3d vision, geometric computing, medical imaging, and computer graphics
• Group: Computational Vision and Active Perception Lab - at KTH (Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology)
• Group: Delft U Pattern Recognition Group
• Group: EPFL - Computer Vision Laboratory - We focus on modeling people and their motion from images and video sequences.
• Group: University of Edinburgh - Machine Vision Unit
• Group: Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Computer Vision and Robotics Lab
• Group: U Tennessee, Knoxville - Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems lab
• Group: Institute of Automation - National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition
• Group: Istituto Trentino di Cultura - Technologies of Vision - Mission of TeV is to develop innovative techniques devoted to applicative topics, which currently include: Content based indexing of documents, images and videos, surveillance and biometic person identification.
• Group: MIT - Perceptual Science Group - group
• Group: Belarusian Academy of Sciences - Laboratory of Image Processing and Recognition
• Group: Stanford University - National Biocomputation Center - Focus is on 3D imaging and visualization technologies for biomedical applications.
• Group: Niigata University - Yamamoto-Hoshino Laboratory
• Group: Northwestern University - Image and Video Processing Laboratory
• Group: Norwegian University of Science and Technology - Signal Processing Group
• Group: Politecnico di Milano - Image and Sound Processing Group
• Group: Seoul National University - 3D Visual Information Procesing Lab - Computer vision research, especially in range image processing, object recognition.
• Group: Sheffield Hallam University - Microsystems & Machine Vision Laboratory
• Group: University of Amsterdam - Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
• Group: University of Antwerp - Vision Lab
• Group: University of Brighton - Applied Image Processing Resource Unit
• Group: University of Hawaii at Manoa - Image Sequence Processing Group - Specializes in the application of vision models (particularly local frequency representations and segmentation-based models) to image and image sequence processing and computer vision.
• Group: University of California Santa Barbara - Image Processing & Vision Research Labs
• Group: University of Copenhagen - Image Research Group
• Group: University of Erlangen - Computer Vision, Image Processing and Analysis
• Group: University of Freiburg - Chair of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
• Group: University Jaume I - Computer Vision Group

01/14/2004

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• Group: University of Ljubljana - Computer Vision Laboratory
• Group: University of Massachusetts Amherst - Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
• Group: University of Southampton - Image, Speech, and Intelligent Systems
• Group: University of Twente - Laboratory for Measurement and Instrumentation

02/13/2004

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• Test_image: Densely Sampled View Spheres - Densely sampled view spheres - upper half of the view sphere of two toy objects with 2500 images each.
• Source_code: Automatic edge thresholding - Automatic edge thresholding as described in paper by Venkatesh and Rosin (GMIP, Vol. 75, pp. 146-160, 1995)

02/15/2004

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• Conference: 1st European Conference on Visual Media Production - New conference on Visual Media Production - papers invited until 29 September 2003. Visit the Web site to find out more about how you can take part!
• Publication: 2003 IEEE VR: Image Based Modeling and Rendering - Image based modeling and rendering proceedings, presentation slides and tutorial software for capture, tracking and geometric modeling.
• Demo: ACCESS: a computer vision art project - This project uses computer vision to track users and control a robotic spotlight. Users online can view two webcams and the tracking information.
• Source_code: Automatic edge thresholding - Code for paper: Svetha Venkatesh & Paul L. Rosin, Dynamic threshold determination by local and global edge evaluation, Graphical Models & Image Processing, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 146-160, 1995.
• Conference: Second International Conference On Artificial Intelligence In Engineering and Technology - ICAIET-2004 is the second in the series of International Conferences organised by the School of Engineering and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The first conference ICAIET-2002 held on the 17-18 June 2002 was very successful. ICAIET-2004 provides a platform for experts to expound and share their successes in applying AI in their respective fields of Engineering and Technology. It also offers an opportunity for young and aspiring researchers to present their findings from their on-going research in AI methodologies and applications.
• Conference: International Workshop on Medical Robotics, Navigation and Visualization - Workshop topics and application areas include (but are not limited to): computer-aided planning, navigation technologies, movement tracking, patient fixation, medical micro robots, robotic instruments, robotic vision, accuracy analysis, intra-treatment visualization, control systems, haptic feed-back systems, safety issues, virtual-reality techniques, tele-manipulation, clinical case and evaluation studies.
• Group: Hunter College of CUNY - Computer Vision Laboratory
• Demo: SNVision Demo - Allows you to open images, learn some models and and recognize them. you can test the system performance with noise, blur, luminance, contrast changes, rotations and zooms.
• Test_image: The Xm2vts database - The XM2VTSDB contains four digital recordings of 295 people taken over a period of four months. This database contains both image and video data of faces.
• Source_code: LTI-LIB computer vison library - an object oriented library with algorithms and data structures frequently used in image processing and computer vision.
• Group: Vincent Torre Lab at SISSA
• Conference: International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR � International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition aims to bring together researchers in the fields of Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition.
• Source_code: CImg : A C++ Image Processing Library - CImg is a free C++ toolkit providing a set of classes designed to process and display images. Contains algorithms classically used in computer vision.
• Group: Laboratory of Motion Analysis and Virtual Reality - Specialized in analysis and synthesis of human motion through image processing.
• Group: IBM Research - Exploratory Computer Vision Group
• Hardware: Homemade 3D Laser Scanner - Offers information on the mechanical hardware and the software of a homemade 3D laser scanner.
• Group: Statistical Learning & Image Processing Genova University Research Unit - Our research focuses on: (1) the study of mathematically sound methods for solving classification problems (2) the development of techniques for extracting visual information from images.
• Conference: AMDO 2004 THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ARTICULATED MOTION AND DEFORMABLE OBJECTS
• Source_code: Non-Rigid Structure from Motion - Matlab software for reconstructing non-rigid 3D shape from tracking data.
• Conference: 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference - The Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) provides a forum for fundamental theoretical and applied contributions to the physics, engineering and mathematical aspects of medical imaging.
• Test_image: Wiry Object Recognition Database - Thousands of images of a cart, ladder, stool, bicycle, chairs, and cluttered scenes with ground truth labelings of edges and regions.
• Group: Computer Vision and Imaging Group - Model-based human tracking, robust methods and medical image understanding.
• Source_code: SpikeNET research: object recognition using spiking neurons - SpikeNET is a program designed for simulating very large networks of asynchronous spiking neurons able to perform object recognition (faces, digits, ...) in natural images.

02/17/2004

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• Related: Human vision research - Links to vision research pages (from UC Irvine page that is now gone)
• Related: Face Detection - Face detection home page

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• Related: 3D Reconstruction - Dedicated to providing information, pointers, references, and results of 3D reconstruction work for medical/life-science (MRI, CT, PET, microscopy) research.
• Related: Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition
• Related: Vision Science - An Internet Resource for Research in Human and Animal Vision
• Related: ISO - International Organization for Standardization
• Related: Remote Sensing - Links relating to remote sensing
• Related: Robotics internet resources - Links to robotics research
• Related: Satellite Imagery FAQ - Not very current (as of 2/17/2004 last update was in 1997)

02/18/2004

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• Source_code: Scorpion Vision Software - Scorpion is a windows-based commercial software package for industrial machine vision applications such as inspection.
• Group: Middle East Technical University - Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Group
• Conference: Biologically Motivated Computer Vision Workshop - 2nd BMCV Workshop which aims to bring together researchers from computer vision and related areas to discuss the increasingly prominent topic of biologically motivated systems.
• Group: IIT Delhi - Vision and Graphics Laboratory
• Conference: Internet Imaging IV - Includes content based image retrieval
• Group: National University of Singapore - Computer Vision Research Group
• Group: University of the Balearic Islands - Computer Graphics and Vision Group

02/19/2004

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• Source_code: Coriander - Coriander is a 1394 camera controller for Linux. It let you control the camera, plus save, FTP, stream and display live video.
• Source_code: VISCA(tm) Control Library - libVISCA is a library for controlling a VISCA compliant camera (such as several camera blocks from Sony)
• Source_code: IIDC Control Library for 1394 cameras - libdc1394 is a library for controlling and acquiring images from a 1394 IIDC compliant camera.
• Conference: International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
• Source_code: Stereo Matching and Evaluation - A stand-alone C++ implementation of many stereo algorithms including an evaluation module using ground truth and prediction error
• Test_image: Middlebury Stereo Data Sets with Ground Truth - Six multi-frame stereo data sets of scenes containing planar regions. Each data set contains 9 color images and subpixel-accuracy ground-truth data.
• Conference: Computer Applications in Health Care - Part of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). This special track includes (among other things) medical computer vision applications.
• Conference: Computer Applications in Health Care - COMPAHEC 2004: Computer applications for medical imaging, medical image processing, segmentation, 3D reconstruction in medical imaging, Computer Graphics, etc.
• Conference: Sixth IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision - The workshop will provide a setting that will allow researchers in different applications areas to interchange ideas and transfer concepts between application areas.
• Conference: ACM Workshop On Biometrics: Methods And Applications
• Conference: Workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in 3D Modeling & Motion Analysis
• Related: spectroscopyNOW - The first dedicated spectroscopy portal. All major techniques addressed in a central resource and houses a wealth of valuable information, resources and services.
• Source_code: Machine vision without pixels - A tutorial and open source code for finding edges and corners based on the filters used in primary visual cortex.

03/29/2004

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• Source_code: MeasTex - A framework for quantitative measurement of image texture classification algorithms.

03/30/2004

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• Source_code: AutoTrace - AutoTrace converts bitmaps to vector graphics
• Source_code: IPTool - Freeware image processing toolkit for Windows
• Source_code: AdOculos - PC-based image processing without the need of extensive programming knowledge
• Source_code: Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - An open source, Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vector, image processing, and graphics production functionality that operates on various platforms through a graphical user interface and shell in X-Windows. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL).
• Source_code: Nuages - A package for 3D reconstruction from parallel cross-sectional data. It uses the Delaunay triangulation.
• Source_code: UTHSCSA ImageTool - A free image processing and analysis program for windows.
• Source_code: ImgStar Image Processing Tools - Complements Pbmplus with edge detection, high/low/band-pass filters, thresholding, etc.
• Source_code: XLI - X11 display tool.
• Source_code: Random dot stereogram generators - Pictures, programs, and information on single image random dot stereograms.
• Source_code: Convex grouping code - Robustly locates salient convex collections of line segments in an image.
• Source_code: HIPS - General Unix-based Image Processing System with C source code (Commercial package )
• Source_code: ImageMagick - Load, display, process, save, and convert images in many formats. Works on Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac. Includes a display program, a converter, screen capture, animator, and more.
• Source_code: Intel Image Processing Library - Optimized assembly MMX code for image processing, pattern recognition, signal processing, and matrix manipulation. The computer vision code was folded into the Integrated Performance PRimitives library and it is no longer free.
• Source_code: Karma Library - Image processing and interprocess communications toolkit
• Source_code: LaboImage - Image processing and analysis toolkit for Windows or X11/Motif.
• Source_code: Mesa - Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL.

03/31/2004

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• Conference: IEEE Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision - This is the first conference for discussing advanced theoretical development on statistical modeling, learning, sampling, and computing issues. Papers are online.
• Conference: Workshop on Advances in Artificial Perception and Robotics 2000 - A workshop on artificial perception and robotics. Topics: early vision, image processing, neural networks, robotics, computer vision and geometry and algebra of computer vision and robotics.
• Conference: British Machine Vision Conference - Proceedings are online
• Conference: Spatial-temporal modelling and its applications - Workshop covering environmental and ecological modelling, medical imaging (including fMRI), computer vision (including tracking), as well as theoretical statistical aspects.
• Conference: Vision Interface and Quality Control by Artificial Vision - This year's theme: Computer Vision for Industrial Applications. Proceedings are online.
• Conference: 2nd International Workshop on Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision - Proceedings are online. This workshop will provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the statistical and computational theories of vision and for studying solid theoretic foundation for integrated vision systems. The workshop is aimed at brings together highly respected researchers from computer vision, mathematics, statistics, information theory, and psychology to address key issues in Bayesian image analysis.

04/09/2004

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• Group: Dundee University - Computer Vision Group - Research topics include human tracking, gesture recognition, monitoring for independent living, vision-based interfaces, medical image analysis and medical imaging
• Test_image: ICG Testhouse sequence - 2 turntable sequences from ifferent viewing heights, 36 images each, resolution 1000x750, color
• Group: University of Guelph - Robot Vision Group of Intelligent Systems Lab - We are interested in exploring real-time dynamic visual processes (e.g., tracking, optical flow, binocular vision) cast in a particle filter framework. We also explore using these visual processes for autonomous robot control in conjunction with markovian planning techniques for various applications such as elderly or disabled aids, search and rescue robotics, intelligent automobiles,...
• Group: University of Southern California - Visual Processing Laboratory
• Source_code: Image Restoration and Inpainting in C++ - New free software about image restoration and inpainting using Level Set technology.
• Conference: 4th International Conference on AUDIO- and VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION - We are now seeing increasing deployment of biometric technologies. including iris and face recognition in airports; and fingerprints controlling access to laptops. AVBPA brings together leading biometric researchers, particularly in image and voice modalities. These have contributed robust solutions to efficient and secure communication. The conference, that has been organized biannually, is an official event of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
• Group: University of Plymouth - Robotic Intelligence Laboratory - The lab focuses on problems related to the design of intelligent domestic and helper robots. These include artificial vision for object recognition and vision for spatial navigation, actions planning and sequencing, and natural language instruction dialogues with the user.
• Conference: International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis - Sponsored by EURASIP and IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• Conference: International Conference on Visual Information Engineering - VIE 2003 is the first in a new series of conferences addressing the converging areas that together make the field of visual information engineering. The conference brings together researchers, developers, creators, educators, and practitioners in image processing, machine vision, computer graphics and visual communications to share their latest achievements and explore future directions and synergies in these exciting areas.
• Group: University College London - Laboratory of computational vision - Computational, theoretical, and psychophysical Studies of biological and artificial visual systems
• Source_code: Real-time dense stereo - E-Stereo is a library that enables to perform real-time dense stereo from 2 or 3 rectified images. It relies on a two-pass algorithm. (correlation-based algorithm + region growing w.r.t. photometric constraints).
• Conference: Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition - Fourth in a series of international workshops on new optimization formulations and methodologies in CVPR.
• Conference: Computer Vision / Computer Graphics Collaboration for Model-based Imaging Rendering, image Analysis and Graphical special Effects - Model-based imaging and analysis, indexing and database retrieval, rendering, compression, virtual and augmented reality, special effects, human-computer interaction, haptics, post-production, computer animation
• Publication: Online Graphics and Vision Journals - Links to online digital libraries for obtaining vision journal papers.
• Demo: Perception-based Image Retrieval - This demo shows a learning engine that can capture your subjective query concept in a small number of feedback rounds.
• Source_code: Edge Detection and Image Segmentation - EDISON is a system with a GUI that performs mean shift based discontinuity preserving filtering and image segmentation as well as edge detection with embedded confidence. The operations can be executed either alone or synergistically.
• Publication: Vision Systems Design magazine - Vision Systems Design is a monthly publication written for engineers and engineering managers developing machine vision and image processing systems.
• Conference: conference internationale SETIT2003 - international conference electronic science, Information technology and telecommunication SETIT2003, Mahdia TUNISIE
• Conference: 2003 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference
• Group: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Computer Vision Group - Computer vision group performs research in the fields of medical image analysis and visualization, shape modeling and visualization, and remote sensing.
• Source_code: Texture Synthesis and Analysis by Rupert Paget - Fast texture synthesis by nonparametric MRF modelling. Source code is provided, plus many free textures.
• Publication: European Integrated Machine Vision Newsletter - European Integrated Machine Vision is published twice a year. Special issues are focusing to different industries, such as glass, manufacturing, food and beverage.
• Conference: 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference - The 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon, at both the Doubletree Hotel - Columbia River and the Doubletree Hotel - Jantzen Beach. In addition, the Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems will continue to be held in conjunction with the NSS/MIC. We welcome scientists and engineers in the field of nuclear science and medical imaging to participate and present original work in a variety of subject areas related to these fields. In addition, specialized topics covering a range of nuclear and medical technology will be presented in the Short Course Program.
• Conference: 13th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference 2003 - The conference will be devoted to the latest developments on Real Time techniques in the fields of plasma, Nuclear and Particle Physics, in Astrophysics as well as in applications of such techniques in Biology, Medicine and Industry. Sessions on the following topics are planed : Real time systems architecture Signal processing Algorithms implementation Trigger and data acquisition Event building and fast networks Controls, monitoring and GUI's Software framework and tools On line databases Networked Computing (i.e. GRID's) Industrial Standards and trends Medical Imaging Processing
• Related: Iris recognition research resources - Research resource site to facilitate the development of new concepts in iris recognition.
• Conference: IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing, 2002
• Conference: XVI Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing
• Conference: IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
• Source_code: Scion LG-3 Linux Driver - A driver and SDK for using the Scion LG-3 card under Linux. GPL source code is included.
• Test_image: Annotated face, hand, cardiac & meat images - Most images & annotations are supplemented by various ASM/AAM analyses using the AAM-API.
• Conference: International Conference on Computer Vision Systems - Special Theme: "Cognitive Computer Vision Systems"
• Group: North Carolina State University - Image Analysis Laboratory
• Test_image: Image Analysis Laboratory - Images obtained from a variety of imaging modalities -- raw CFA images, range images and a host of "medical images".
• Source_code: Stereo Calibration - free java-based software for camera calibration and stereo rig calibration. The device uses a calibration object.
• Group: University of Granada - Computer Vision Group - Specializes in image representational models, distortion measures, target distinctness and image compression
• Source_code: Collective rationality for the allocation of bits - CORAL is a software-based implementation of a new coder scheme that in absence of a priori knowledge about regions of interest propose a new method for bit allocation which can be used with reasonable internal consistency and acceptable image fidelity.
• Source_code: A rational methodology for lossy compression - REWIC is a software-based implementation of a a rational system for progressive transmission which, in absence of a priori knowledge about regions of interest, choose at any truncation time among alternative trees for further transmission.
• Source_code: Phase-based estimation of the optical flow field - Implementation of the phase-based optical flow algorithm described in Gautama, T. and Van Hulle, M.M. (2002). A Phase-based Approach to the Estimation of the Optical Flow Field Using Spatial Filtering, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 13(5), 1127--1136.
• Conference: 5th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing - CALL FOR PAPERS EVOIASP2003 Fifth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Essex, United Kingdom, April 14, 2003 EvoIASP is the first European event specifically dedicated to the applications of evolutionary computation (EC) to image analysis and signal processing (IASP) and gives European and non-European researchers in those fields, as well as people from industry, an opportunity to present their latest research and to discuss current developments and applications, besides fostering closer future interaction between members of the three scientific communities. The previous editions of the Workshop were held in Goteborg, Sweden (1999), Edinburgh, UK (2000), Como, Italy (2001), and Kinsale, Ireland (2002).
• Conference: 1st Intl Workshop on In-Vehicle Cognitive Computer Vision Systems - The scope of this workshop is to present original works that demonstrate the breadth of applicability of methods of scene analysis in videos taken from moving cameras for ITS applications and in-vehicle vision systems.
• Conference: International Conference on Image and Signal Processing - The second edition of ICISP (ICISP�2003) aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with a forum to report on the latest developments in image and signal processing, multimedia and computer graphics.
• Source_code: VIPS image processing system - free image processing library and interface for unix, mac and windows
• Source_code: CMVision Color Machine Vision Library - A free low level color vision processing library, which is able to threshold and calculate connected components of 640x480 60fps video streams entirely in software.
• Conference: IEEE/CVPR Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology - Provide a forum to discuss how computer vision has been applied to archaeology problems and in turn define new interesting problems to work on.
• Source_code: Compound Gain: A visual distinctness metric for coder performance evaluation - CG is a visual distinctness metric that constitutes an alternative to PSNR for evaluating the performance of compression methods.
• Conference: Omnivis 2003 -- Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision and Camera Networks
• Conference: International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems - MFI 2003 is an IEEE-IES, IEEE-RAS, SICE, RSJ jointly sponsored international conference devoted entirely to multisensor fusion and integration.
• Group: Institute of Clinical Physiology CNR - Computer Vision Group - Development of new mathematical operators for the purpose of both understanding biological vision and developing real-time image-processing systems.
• Source_code: Tracking moving object - Given a sequence of images you can identify target object and track their path. Exports position/speed to excel spreadsheet
• Conference: International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology and Applications - AITA 2003 aims to constitute a forum bringing together scientists and young researchers, from both the academic and industrial world, to exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences in the field of infrared science and technology.
• Conference: 4th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance - The 4th IEEE PETS (PETS-ICVS), in conjunction with ICVS'03, continues the theme of the highly successful PETS2000, PETS2001 and PETS2002 workshops on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance. The workshop series is unique in that all participants are testing algorithms on the same datasets. For PETS-ICVS, the theme is gesture and action recognition. More specifically, the annotation of a "smart meeting".
• Conference: Vision, Video, and Graphics 2003 - Graphics and Vision researchers under one roof, exploring the convergence of the areas.
• Conference: 2003 Workshop on Motion Tracking and Object Recognition - Motion tracking with model based object recognition is one of the problems in computer vision that many researchers are struggling to solve. Its goal is to monitor activity of an object, to track and retain information about an object, and/or detect and identify a moving object in a site over extended periods of time. It has numerous applications from intelligence to traffic control to remote surveillance to human-computer interaction. This session aims to bring together experts from motion tracking as well as from object recognition community.
• Conference: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Image Processing - High performance computing for image processing has numerous applications from computer vision to real-time image object recognition to remote surveillance to human-computer interaction, where the processing time is critical. The exponential growth of applications based on computer networks greatly stimulates the research on parallel and distributed image processing in order to increase the processing speed. This session aims to bring together experts from image processing as well as from distributed computing.
• Group: Adelaide University - Computer Vision Lab - Primarily researching (1) structure from motion and related geometric problems in computer vision, and (2) video surveillance and analysis. (See publications.)
• Conference: The 10th International Multimedia Modelling Conference
• Conference: International Conference on Biometric Authentication - Biometric technologies, systems, implementations, applications, etc.
• Group: GE Research - Computer Vision Group - Computer vision at GE includes basic and applied research in surveillance, aerial and broadcast video understanding; medical imaging; industrial inspection; and general image analysis.
• Group: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - Imagelab
• Publication: The Photogrammetric Record - Contains original, independently and rapidly refereed articles that reflect current photogrammetric practice and research worldwide. An official journal of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society.
• Test_image: The RVL SPEC-DB (SPECularity DataBase) - A collection of over 300 real images of 100 objects taken under three different illuminaiton conditions (Diffuse/Ambient/Directed). -- Use these images to test algorithms for detecting and compensating specular highlights in color images.
• Demo: Obstacle detection by stereo vision as driving aid - A horopter method completed with a lane marking finding algorithm (to identify the road surface) using the retroprojection of the camera image on the road
• Related: Machine Vision Assoc. of SME - The Machine Vision Assoc. within the Society of Manufacturing Engineers emphasizes the application of MV to manufacturing for inspection and process control.
• Conference: Soft Computing for Image Processing - This special session will cover a range of domains, from more traditional ones such as image analysis at low, medium and high level, including pattern recognition and all the topics inherent to computer vision, all treated by means of soft-computing techniques. Topics include but are not limited to: -Soft computing algorithms for denoising and restoration -Soft computing techniques for pattern recognition -Soft computing algorithms for digital image processing, coding and encryption -Soft computing in computer vision -Soft computing algorithms for video content-based indexing and retrieval -Soft multimedia data analysis and visualization: texture, color, content, etc. -Applications, i.e. visual surveillance, face recognition, medical imaging, remote sensing, etc.
• Group: University of North Carolina at Charlotte - Vision Group - We are currently working on areas such as Gesture recognition, Vision based tracking for VR, and Skin Detection studies
• Conference: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Gold Coast, Australia on 12-14 July 2004. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation.
• Group: University of Bologna - Vision Mathematics Group - Our team works at the use of topology and geometry in computer vision and robotic applications. We are mainly interested in the use of Size Functions and Size Theory for shape comparison.
• Group: Telecom Paris - Image Processing and Understanding Group
• Demo: Viper demo page - Viper Content based Image retrieval demo
• Info: IEEE1394 Digital Camera List - The most comprehensive list of IEEE1394 cameras for machine vision.
• Conference: International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis - Discrete geometry; Digital topology; Discrete tomography; Array, graph and parallel grammars; Cellular automata; Tilings and patterns; Combinatorial methods in image analysis; Combinatorial problems in the discrete plane; Integer-only algorithms for image analysis; Non-conventional computing for image analysis

04/29/2004

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• Info: Poynton's Color and Gamma FAQs - Useful information on gamma correction and color spaces
• Info: CMU AI Repository - Hasn't been updated in a long time.
• Info: Computer Vision Education Resource - Links to web-pages for computer vision courses, assignments, and computer vision books (with stuent ratings).

04/30/2004

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• Source_code: NewCyber3D - Commercial software for OpenGL 3D graphics, GIS, stereo display, image processing, and visualization
• Source_code: Uratek - Software for real-time object tracking, gaze tracking, and camera motion estimation
• Source_code: Scion ImagePC - Scion frame grabber interface and image processing software based on NIH Image. Windows and Mac versions available. (free)
• Hardware: Pixelsmart - Video frame grabber manufacturer.
• Source_code: Jpeg/Dicom library - MFC source code for jpeg/dicom/twain (commercial, but limited free version available)
• Source_code: PixeLook - PixeLook is a powerful set of components for Delphi 6 for creating professional-looking image- and 2D-data processing applications.
• Conference: British Machine Vision Conference 2003 - The British Machine Vision Conference is the main UK conference on machine vision and related areas. Organised by the British Machine Vision Association, the 14th BMVC will be held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. BMVC solicits full-length high-quality papers in image processing and machine vision. All papers will blind-refereed. Successful papers will be presented at a single-track conference held in September 2003.
• Group: Weizmann Institute of Science - Computer Vision Lab
• Source_code: 2D and 3D Image Filter: Facor. - Facor is an image filter suitable for enhancement of wide variety of 2D and 3D images, including medical diagnostic images (commercial software).
• Source_code: VideoOCX - VideoOCX functions in an ActiveX programming environment and allows you to easily integrate video capture and image processing capabilities into your software program. (commercial software)

05/01/2004

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• Group: Brown Universtity - SHAPE Lab - Shape representation, 3D object and scene reconstructions, Object recognition, Computer vision for Architecture, Archaeology, CAD, and beyond.
• Source_code: EdgeDetector - JavaBean for edge detection using Canny algorithm (commercial software)
• Source_code: THBComponentware - THBImage - Commercial windows-based image processing library.
• Source_code: Salience distance transform - The salience distance transform incorporates edge strength information into the distance transform. The output is more robust and informative as input for techniques such as snakes.
• Source_code: MontiVision Development Kit - A DirectX-based development kit for vendor independent image and video processing applications, programmable via COM interfaces. Contains a free development environment. (commercial software)
• Source_code: EIKONA - A family of general purpose, highly portable image processing applications. The full implementations contain more than 500 routines. Demos available. (commercial software)
• Source_code: DIVA 3D - Diva3D for Windows is a software package for digital video processing and analysis.
• Hardware: Seeing Machines - Seeing Machines has a focus on vision based human machine interfaces. Develop technology that provides head, pose, gaze direction and eyelid closure tracking.
• Source_code: Able Image Analyser - Windows application for image analysis, processing and measurement (commercial software).
• Source_code: ImageGear - Commercially available imaging toolkit for Windows, UNIX, and MAC. Supports all of the popularly used graphics file formats.
• Hardware: BiTEC - Low cost video camera daughter card with high-speed serial port. An ideal solution for educational/research and low volume image processing and machine vision applications.
• Source_code: Associative Memory for Face Memorization and Recognition - Free fully self-contained C++ code for on-the-fly storing and retrieving of patterns, such as binary coded faces, using projective associative memory.
• Source_code: Sherlock Machine Vision Software - Machine vision and image processing package with intuitive user interface. For commercial machine vision tasks, but free demo allows unlimited use on image files.
• Source_code: SNVision SDK - A windows-based SDK for real-time recognition and tracking. (commercial software)
• Source_code: Image Restoration and Inpainting - Large Library in c++ for slow and fast image restoration, inpainting, morphology, and distance mapping. (free software)
• Group: University of Toronto - Computational Vision Group

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• Publication: Online CMU Computer Vision class - Videos and slides from CMU's computer vision course
• Conference: Pattern Recognition Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition - The German Association for Pattern Recognition (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft f�r Mustererkennung e.V., DAGM) invites authors and guests to their 26th annual pattern recognition symposium DAGM'04 in T�bingen, August 30th - September 1st, 2004.
• Source_code: Visiopharm Integrator System - A commercial, database-driven image analysis system aimed at medical image analysis.
• Source_code: Scilab - A free scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Developed by researchers at INRIA and ENPC.
• Conference: 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference - Several conferences held at the same venue. The Medical Imaging Conference is most related to computer vision.
• Source_code: MATLAB Functions for Computer Vision - A collection of MATLAB functions including: Feature detection via Phase Congruency, Non-maxima suppression and hysteresis thresholding, Edge linking and line segment fitting, Image denoising, Frequency domain transformations, Functions supporting projective geometry, Surface normals to surfaces using Shapelets, Robust estimation, and more.
• Test_image: University of Oulu Texture Database - Database of 320 surface textures, each captured under three illuminants, six spatial resolutions and nine rotation angles. A set of test suites is also provided so that texture segmentation, classification, and retrieval algorithms can be tested in a standard manner.
• Group: Cankaya University - Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab

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• Group: University of Rochester - Vision and Robotics research - Lab
• Demo: Ikona - Content-Based Image Retrieval using relevance feedback
• Hardware: SkySoft Express Image processing systems - Digital image processing systems for the trade, banking and insurance industries. Highlights: OCR, Barcode, Object measurement, pattern recognition and more.
• Source_code: FreeImage - FreeImage is an Open Source project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, RAS, PNM, PCX, TGA in their C++ applications for Windows.
• Test_image: JAFFE Facial Expression Image Database - The JAFFE database consists of 213 images of Japanese female subjects posing 6 basic facial expressions as well as a neutral pose. Ratings on emotion adjectives are also available, free of charge, for research purposes.
• Related: Facial Expression Resources Page - Links to research groups and other resources concerning facial expression recognition.
• Related: Homepage of Fuzzy Image Processing - Introduction to theory of fuzzy image processing, people researching in this area, literature, software, ...

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• Conference: The Vision Show and Conference East - Vision East is North America's largest machine vision trade show and conference.
• Source_code: Mimas Toolkit - The Mimas Toolkit if an open source library that contains a variety of image processing, computer vision and mathematical tools.
• Conference: International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis
• Source_code: An Image Processing Laboratory - IMLAB is a free open source graphical application for Scientific Image Processing that runs in Windows, Linux and many other UNIX systems. It supports multiple windows, data types including 32 bit integers, 32 bit real numbers and complex numbers. It is implemented in C++ and also in C to provide a very simple way to add new functions. It has many image operations and supports several file formats.
• Source_code: An Imaging Library - IM is free open source set of libraries that contains a series of C functions and C++ classes for handling digital images. It has support for capture devices, multipaged image file formats, many image processing functions, scientific data types and attributes.
• Group: National Technical University of Athens Computer Vision, Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group - Multiscale image analysis, enhancement, feature extraction and object detection with algebraic, geometric and statistical methods. Analysis and modeling of shape, texture, color, and motion.
• Conference: International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics - The aim of this challenging event is to facilitate an international forum for technical presentations and discussions on latest advances in Computer Vision and Graphics.
• Publication: OpenCV and DirectShow Tutorial - A beginner's guide to the use of the Intel OpenCV library and the Microsoft DirectShow technology for programming computer vision applications with MS Visual C++
• Source_code: Modelling the initial stages of visual information processing. - Ret4 - software for modelling and observing reactions of retinal cells
• Conference: Mathematical Models of Visual Perception - The conference is devoted to mathematical models of visual perception.
• Group: Sheffield Hallam University Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Group - Research on 3D image acquisition, surface reconstruction, and image registration and fusion

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