What's New in the Computer Vision Home Page?

(Spring 97)

May 22, 1997

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• Images: U Plymouth Image Archive - 1800 views of 5 synthetic 3D objects, the views being collected from the whole upper viewing hemisphere
• Group: U Bristol Image Processing and Computer Vision Group
• Conference: EUSIPCO '98 - The 1998 European Signal Processing Conference

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• Source code: NIST Handwriting OCR Testbed - OCR software and datasets for UNIX systems

May 21, 1997

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• Hardware: Dipix Vision Systems - frame grabbers and vision systems
• Hardware: Frame Grabbers for Linux - index of frame grabber manufacturers and drivers
• Images: EarthRISE - images of Earth from the space shuttle - good search engine
• Images: Imagenation - low-cost precision framegrabbers - PC and PC/104
• Demo: Segmentor - a colorful image segmentation java applet
• Source code: JPEG coder/decoder - a Java library for jpeg encoding/decoding
• Publication: Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision - an impressive collection of hypertext summaries on the central topics in computer vision (you are invited to contribute)
• Hardware: CircuitOnline - a directory of services for the electronics manufacturing industry. It covers segments from integrated circuits to semiconductor manufacturing and PCB assembly.
• Images: Image Database - (not surprisingly) an image database including some textures
• Group: U São Paulo Division of Informatics R&D group
• Source code: Matlab Pyramid Tools: MatLab tools for multi-scale (pyramid) image decomposition, including Laplacian pyramids, QMFs/wavelets, and steerable pyramids. Also includes fast convolution routines, histogram tools, and synthetic image generation.

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• Publication: Digital Image Processing with Khoros 2, online course by Ramiro Jordán and Roberto de Alencar Lotufo (copy in Brazil also available)

May 10, 1997

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• Demo: SQUID - Shape Queries Using Image Databases
• Conference: ISIRS - International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems
• Source code: Software from U of Calgary vision - includes chain code, Hough transform, and others.

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• Publication: IBM Almaden Video/Image Analysis for annotation and indexing papers and mpegs
• Source code: MMach - A Mathematical Morphology Toolbox for the KHOROS System

May 9, 1997

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• Conference: Algoritmy '97
• Group: Israel Computer Vision research alliance
• Group: Slovak Technical University
• Group: U of Zagreb Image Processing Group
• Group: UC San Diego Computer Vision and Robotics Research Lab
• Group: University Jaume I, Castelló Computer Vision Group

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• Group: U Rochester Vision and Robotics Lab
• Group: IMAG Projet PRIMA

May 8, 1997

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• Group: Israel Computer Vision research alliance
• Group: Slovak Technical University

9 March 1997

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• Computer Vision Workshop - An image analysis tool based on the Vista software environment.
• Conference: IEEE Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries
• Active Imaging, Inc. - cameras and frame grabbers

9 February 1997

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• Convex grouping algorithm - robustly locates salient convex collections of line segments in an image.
• October 20-22, 1997 CAMP '97 - the International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception - Boston, Massachusetts.
• Hebrew U Computer Vision Lab
• August 17-20, 1998 ICPR'98 - 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• MeasTex- framework for quantitative measurement of image texture classification algorithms
• Berlin Technical U Computer Vision group

31 January 1997

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• Matrox - Imaging Products Group
• July 2-4, 1997 13th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing in Santorini, Greece

30 January 1997

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• KLT - an implementation of the Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi feature tracker.
• WebSeer - image search engine for the WWW
• Wavelets for Texture Analysis - A comprehensive look, including a tutorial and list of researchers in the field.
• Direct Least Square Fitting of Ellipses
• OmniCam - camera with a hemispherical field of view
• MeasTex- framework for quantitative measurement of image texture classification algorithms
• QuestLink - IC index
• Multiresolution Contrast Based Thresholding
• SketchUp is a demo package for recognizing hand-drawn sketches through Size Functions, written by the U. Bologna Vision Mathematics group.

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• TU Delft Digital Picture Archive (many pictures, gif, jpeg, other formats) - archive has been shut down
• A. B. Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics - Lab for Neural Network Modeling in Vision Research

20 January 1997

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• Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
• Image processing technical information - an image processing homepage
• Nuages - A 3-D shape from contour package
• U Manchester Information Systems Engineering Research group - image processing at U Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
• GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - Photoshop-style image editor
• VISU - Tcl/Tk toolkit for visualization and interactive segmentation of 2D gray-scale images

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• Perceptual Organization Software

6 January 1997

Added Columbia's Web OmniCamera.

4 January 1997

Updated Persistence of Vision ray tracer.