New additions to the Computer Vision Homepage (Spring, 1999)

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12/25/1998

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• Related: Industrial Tomography at Laboratory 57 - Specialists in non-destructive testing using tomography and other (non-vision related) methods.
• Conference: Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
• Hardware: Pulnix cameras - Pulnix is the industry leader in cameras for machine vision and imaging.
• Group: U Missouri-Columbia - Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory - Expertise in Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic, Mathematical Morphology in Image Processing, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, and Applied Image Recognition Systems.
• Source_code: CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library - C++ library of geometric primitives and standard data structures and algorithms used in computational geometry.
• Demo: Query by image content from remote sensing images - This demo is based on 484 small sub-scenes of a Landsat TM image. Queries are based on multi-spectral and textural features and the overall image complexity.
• Source_code: Renoir - 3D reconstruction from photos - 3D reconstruction from photos. 3D photomontage. ($$ payware $$ - free demo version available). Mainly useful for computer graphics, but uses some computer vision techniques

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• Group: Dalhousie U - Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory - Research into new theory, algorithms and architectures to support real-time computer vision.

12/26/1998

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• Source_code: Moxy - build AVI animations from images - Moxy is a tool for construction AVI files, a common type of video animation format. It also has limited video editing capabilities.
• Source_code: Multi-Threaded Image Processing - commercial Image Processing Environment with ISO12087 based "drag and drop" modules and a powerful API for C,C++ programming of own modules.

01/04/1999

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• Conference: Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 1999 - The 1999 Irish Machine Vision & Image Processing (IMVIP) Conference will be hosted by Dublin City University, bringing together theoreticians and practitioners, industrialists and academics, from the numerous related disciplines involved in the processing and analysis of image-based information.
• Hardware: Bill and Jack's Robot and Video Page - Sellers of surplus video cameras and LCD displays
• Group: U California Davis - 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.
• Hardware: Control Vision Corp. Imaging Systems - Maker of several digitizers for the PC
• Demo: Digital Image Analysis System - fully functional online version of the DIAS image processing system.
• Group: U Georgia - Visual and Parallel Computing Laboratory - The goal of the VPCL is to advance the state of the art in the theory and applications of Visual Computing and Parallel Computing. Current projects deal with machine vision for inspection and production planning, image analysis of DNA microarrays, pattern recognition problems in DNA analysis, analysis of motion in video sequences and applications of parallel computing to the above problems.
• Hardware: License Plate Systems and Lenses - lens magnifies 2x vertically, allowing single field capture of images without the usual image flattening effect.
• Group: Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Image and Pattern Analysis Group - Textures and patterns: fundamental structural features Motion: feature-based tracking Image and video databases: retrieval Industrial inspection: shape defect detection
• Conference: IEEE Workshop on the Integration of Appearance and Geometric Methods in Object Recognition - In conjunction with CVPR 99.
• Source_code: The Image Processing Tool Kit - Comprehensive set of image processing and analysis routines in the form of Photoshop-compatible plug-ins for Mac and PC, with extensive tutorial. (commercial package $$)
• Conference: Euro-Par '99 - a parallel computing conference, but one track (topic 12) relevant: Architectures and Algorithms for Vision and other Senses
• Hardware: Data Recorder for PCI Bus Data Sources - XLRWrite Disk Recorder records data from PCI data and image capture cards at sustained rates up to 800MB/s for over 225 GB.
• Source_code: Visus Imaging - Image analysis toolkit and complete systems aimed at researchers and microscopists in Biomedical and Material Sciences. (commercial product $$)
• Conference: Image Processing Methods in Applied Mechanics (Euromech 406) - A common platform for groups working on development and application of modern image acquisition and image processing methods in fluid and solid mechanics.
• Related: Retinex Image Processing - Provides technical information about the Retinex image enhancement algorithm, as well as numerous application examples.
• Test_image: Digital Embryos - Digital embryos are novel objects which may be used to develop and test object recognition systems. They have an organic appearance.

01/06/1999

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• Source_code: ILIB Imaging Libraries - commercial package of image processing libraries for the Windows environment (C/C++ interface). It also includes neural and genetic imaging capabilities.
• Group: Ritsumeikan U - Computer Vision Laboratory

01/07/1999

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• Conference: Workshop on Performance Characterisation and Benchmarking of Vision Systems - Immediately preceeding ICVS

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• Demo: Perceptual Browser - Demonstrates perceptual interaction by controlling the vertical scrolling of a window with head motion. Runs on Power Macintosh, SGI Indy, and O2.
• Group: U Oulu Machine Vision and Media Processing Group
• Source_code: WiT - Visual programming environment for image processing (demo).
• Group: Auckland U, Tamaki Campus, Computer Vision Unit at Tamaki

01/08/1999

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• Source_code: Image-Pro Plus - Commercial image analysis software used in biological and industrial microscopy applications.
• Group: U Miami - Underwater Vision and Imaging Laboratory
• Publication: Computer Vision and Image Understanding - also has special issues such as "Underwater coputer vision and pattern recognition"
• Related: Adaptive Automation Resources - Organizes links in adaptive automation applicable to a broad audience. Has useful links to math software, including 3D vision-related geometric processing.

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• Test_image: OSU (MSU) 3D Object Model Database - several sets of 3D object models collected over several years to use in object recognition research
• Test_image: OSU (MSU/WSU) Range Image Database - Hundreds of real and synthetic images
• Group: Institute of Systems and Robotics - Computer Vision Laboratory

03/03/1999

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• Conference: Audio-and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication - Face, voice and multi-modal recognition, feature extraction, and human activity understanding.
• Hardware: Coreco - Devloper of hardware and software for the high-end imaging and vision market, including frame-grabbers, vision processing boards, and imaging tools.
• Group: U of Utah - Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging
• Source_code: Optimas: Analytical Imaging - Complete commercial image-analysis program for Windows used in biological and industrial measurement environments.

03/05/1999

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• Group: U of the West of England - Machine Vision Group - Specialize in surface inspection
• Group: U Antwerp - Vision Lab - The Vision Lab is an image processing group
• Publication: References on noise and SNR in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Conference: Second Workshop on Empirical Evaluation Methods in Computer Vision - Pre-CVPR '99 workshop
• Conference: IEEE International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision
• Group: Academia Sinica - Laboratories of Intelligent Systems

03/08/1999

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• Group: U Tennessee - Vision Group - Resarch the areas of computer vision and robotics.
• Group: U Otago - Computer Vision Research Group
• Conference: ICCV'99 Vision Algorithms Workshop
• Group: U Washington - Information Processing Lab
• Hardware: Surveyor Corporation - products include a computer-controlled camera pan/tilt and lens control device
• Conference: European Signal Processing Conference 2000 - The main European Conference on Signal and Image Processing
• Conference: NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Confluence of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics
• Source_code: Carina - commercial package for recognizing license plates
• Conference: Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 1999
• Source_code: SRI Stereo Engine Software - fast stereo software for PCs. It performs disparity calculations and filtering in real time on images up to 320x240 in size.
• Hardware: STH-V1 Integrated Stereo Head - a compact, low-power stereo head using two CMOS camera modules. A unique feature is that a stereo image can be multiplexed onto a single NTSC video signal.
• Conference: Second Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies

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• Source_code: Numerical Recipies - Public Domain code for the famous book (only some of the code is public domain).
• Source_code: StatLib - Statistical software, datasets, and information.
• Publication: CMU Advanced Perception Seminar syllabus
• Test_image: Yale Face Database - 165 images (15 individuals) with different lighting, expression, and occlusion configurations.

03/09/1999

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• Conference: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence, Information, and Systems - Consists of four symposia. The one most related to vision is the IEEE Symposium on Image, Speech, Natural Language Systems (ISNLS)

04/10/1999

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• Hardware: Line Scan Camera and Processor Hardware - Systems for line scan vision acquisition and processing.
• Source_code: Perl Data Language - An extension to perl that implements fast, compact manipulation of large, N-dimensional data arrays for scientific computing and image processing.
• Conference: The 4th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition and Digital Techniques
• Test_image: The AR Face Database - Contains over 4,000 color images corresponding to 126 people's faces (70 men and 56 women). Frontal views with variations in facial expressions, illumination, and occlusions.
• Hardware: 3D Scanners - Maker of high-speed laser scanning systems and software for creating 3-D models.
• Group: Lehigh U - Vision And Software Technology Laboratory - Research includes 3D vision, real-time tracking, omni-directional processing, remote reality and teleoperation, super-resolution imaging, medical-imaging, multi-res imaging/algorithms, image-oriented user interface issues, IUE, CORBA, and DCE.
• Conference: International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing
• Group: U São Paulo - Creative Vision Group - Specializes in person recognition using video sequences
• Conference: Asian Conference on Computer Vision

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• Group: U Tennessee, Knoxville - Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems lab

05/31/1999

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• Group: Luebeck University of Medicine - Institute for Signal Processing - Medical and industial image processing, pattern recognition and classification bio-signal processing,
• Source_code: GD - a graphics library for GIF creation - provides GIF read/write code in a C library. It also provides minimal image manipulation functions (lines, arcs, text, colors). Includes versions for Unix and Windows systems.
• Demo: Content-Based Image Retrieval: Surfimage - Demonstrate a CBIR system using relevance feedback
• Info: efg's Image Processing Reference Library - Very nice collection of image processing links and more. catgories include: General, Databases, Algorithms, Medical, Software Packages, Image Registration, Math Tech, Resources.
• Info: efg's Color Reference Library - Collection of links about Color Science and other Color Information
• Demo: Online Image Segmentation - The applet demonstrates one basic region segmentation algorithm that we have developed for images and videos.
• Source_code: LookingGlass Real-time ImageProcessing System - multithreaded PC-based image proccessing environment that supports realtime video processing.
• Source_code: SDC Morphology Toolbox for Matlab - Matlab add-on: Gray-scale morphological tools for image segmentation, non-linear filtering, pattern recognition and image analysis: watershed, Euclidean distance transform, top-hat, reconstruction. (many real-life demonstrations)