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Vision hardware_systems	Cool Projects

Machine Learning

Multiple Instance Learning

http://cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/zhouzh.files/publication/publication_toc.htm#Multi-Instance%20Learning

Vision Products:

http://www.tyzx.com/

Computer vision courses

CMU -by Narasimhan
Univ. of Central florida UCF-cap6411-by Khurram Hassan Shafique

Computer vision books

Cool projects / products

Kinect

Embedded vision

Tool

Epipolar goemetry toolbox

Camera array

University of Alberta: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~yang/camera_array.htm
HKU EE Camera Array project: http://www.eee.hku.hk/~dsp/Camera%20Array.html
CMU project:http://chenlab.ece.cornell.edu/projects/MobileCamArray/, Paper:The Plenoptic video 2005
Stanford camera array
camera_array_matting University of California, San Diego

insect vision

insect vision resource: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQzXtwCU0UULZGQzdGRzczJfMjYxZmJ4OGQ3Z2M&hl=en

Fun projects

http://tech.mop.com/yc/2008/0603/1554205116.shtml (Chinese wii)
The idea of light field rendering proposed by Standford:
http://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soe.ucsc.edu%2Fclasses%2Fcmps160%2FSpring05%2Fp31-levoy.pdf&ei=_byISqe1NNeJkQXa29CpCA&usg=AFQjCNG8fAdFQjuuGc2pm82BIgErdHYGyw&sig2=eP8dMD8XvoLizaVWllMNEA
Method to construct capture light field:
Camera array method:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfvc/
Low cost method by multiple convex mirror:
http://mesh.brown.edu/dlanman/research/3DPVT06/3DPVT06-Lanman-Calibration.pdf

Feature Trackers

Hologram

wiki Holography, Digital_holography,
spatial_light_modulator SLM

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote by Johnny lee (youtube)
Telepresencetech 3D
real-time quadrilateral detection and tracking (youtube)
photo tour
cool products https://www.nextengine.com/indexSecure.htm?gclid=CPmA8pq6xpYCFRNPegodyGAKww
Projects

bumptop (3d interface)

Vision_groups

opencv and oen source programms

Vision Research groups

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vmr/projects/projects.html
Oxford Visual Geometry Group
open cv: http://www.intel.com/research/mrl/research/opencv/overview.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OpenCV/

Vision_books : http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/
HIRP2 tutorial: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/
CMU computer vision homepage:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html,

MIT media lab: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/
robotvis of INRIA: http://www-sop.inria.fr/robotvis/robotvis-eng.html
A structure and motion toolbox in matlab by Torr
matlab tracker : http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~abhishek/softwares.html

Virtual relaity

UCLA http://www.cs.ucla.edu/%7Ehljin/research/voi.html

UST

Jia Jiaya (http://www.cs.ust.hk/~leojia/

Microsoft

http://research.microsoft.com/vision/

kanatani ken-ich

Vision_fields

Video Analysis Projects-The Weizmann Institute Vision Group (Michael Irani, Capsi) at Israel

Hand gesture

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~matz/HGI/HandVu.html

Active vision and waerable computer

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~lav/ (oxford, david murray, slam, wearable_vision_sys )
SLAM davision
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~pupilli/ (U of Bristol)
http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/biovision/Vision_Active_laboratoires.html

Visual servoing

http://vstoolbox.sourceforge.net/

Active stereo

http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~rsl/rsl_active.html

omni-directional_cameras

3D map

http://www.digitalglobe.com/

3d scanners

http://www.inspeck.com/#
http://www.cyberware.com/
http://w3.impa.br/~pcezar/3dp/original/scan-fausto.html (a directory of tools for 3d scanning)
http://www.simple3d.com/
http://www.d-vw.com/ (a company specilaised in 3d reconstruction located at oxford science park )

simulik

tutorial : http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/matlab/toolbox/simulink/simulink.html

camera array

http://www.wscapeinc.com/camera_array.html

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/array/

http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/projects/MobileCamArray/

Video image database

bob fisher

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CAVIAR/ , http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CAVIARDATA1/

New vision directions

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/vision.html

MCMC

Other fields

matting

Graph cut

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~rdz/graphcuts.html

Vision_software_tools

Tools

QVision: Qt's Image, Video and Computer Vision Library (spain)
Opencv

webcam driver for opencv

Vision & image processing on the Web (quoted from Machine Vision Toolbox for MATLAB (Release 2) http://petercorke.com/Machine%20Vision%20Toolbox.html)
•MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing (Kovesi)
•Epipolar Geometry Toolbox
•Visual Servoing Toolbox
•Camera calibration toolbox for Matlab (Bouguet)
•Camera calibration toolbox for Matlab (Heikkila)
•FAQ about color and gamma
•Stereo matching for Matlab (Jasmine Banks)
stereo display

http://www.3dtv.at/Downloads/Index_en.aspx
http://www.ray3d.com/glasses.html
http://www.studio3d.com/pages/stereovideo.html#lcs
And a website describing how to make such glasses by ourselves. http://www.petesprojects.com/stereo-video/index.htm#index

Zisserman's tools: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/hzbook/code/
MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing (ransac.m)

Computer Vision Software: http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/info/software.html

Subspace Segmentation by GPCA

video conversion

http://www.apollo-tech.com/

nov1 (extract images from mpeg2)

webcams

java webcam interface
Webcams for matlab: Free Matlab code , Matlab fileexcahnge (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/)

vcapg2 (matlab multiple webcams interface)
older tool: vfm (video for window and matlab), data acquisition toolbox

Products

Research Vision systems

The Computer Vision Industry : industrial systems edited by lowe

MATLAB Functions for Computer Vision and Image Analysis by Peter Kovesi

Camera_calibration

Camera calibartion toolbox in matlab (caltech)

Links to other camera calibration systems

Commercial vision tools

www.alphatecltd.com/download/download.html

tracking

Kalman filter toolbox

Computational geometry (surface reconstruction etc)

http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/compgeom/code.html

EM

Olivier Capp H2M : A set of MATLAB/OCTAVE functions for the EM (http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~cappe/h2m/)

Programming

MATLAB

Free Matlab code , Matlab fileexcahnge (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/)

vcapg2 (matlab multiple webcams interface)
older tool: vfm (video for window and matlab), data acquisition toolbox

C++ and others

VRML

http://vrmlworks.crispen.org/convert.html
vivaty vrml player : get vivaty player

Vision hardware and systems

Vision hardware graphic cards

hardware vision

real time vision hardware : http://wwwlasmea.univ-bpclermont.fr/Personnel/Francois.Berry/seemos.htm

http://www.gpgpu.org/
caremas

webcam and CCD CMOS cameras

http://www.alldatasheet.net/

http://www.robozes.com/inaki/dproject/ using (C3088 webcam chip)
http://www.emgware.com/
CMU cam http://www.cmucam.org/wiki/WikiStart

Camera specification glossary

(Sensor size): http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Camera_System/Sensor_Sizes_01.htm

Vision books and tutorials

Vision tutorials

Wavelet tutorial by Clemens

Vision Books

Book-- Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Szeliski
Hartley and Zisserman, Multiple geometry in computer vision, Cambridge, University Press. 2002.
Trucco and Verri, Introductory techniques for computer 3-D computer vision, Prentice Hall 1998
Faugeras and Luong, The geometry fo multiple images, the MIT press, 2001.
Forsyth and Ponce, Computer Vision a modern approach, Prentice Hall 2003.
Strang, G., Linear Algrbra, Glibert strang,, Wellesley Cambridge press, 1998.
Forsyth: computer vision
Yi Ma,An Invitation to 3-D Vision From Images to Geometric Models, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. 2003
Gonzalez digital image processing matlab files: ttp://www.imageprocessingbook.com/DIPUM/mfiles/M-files.htm

Embedded vision

Platform and System
http://www.sarnoff.com/
(proprietary hardware and software)
National Instruments Embedded Vision System
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/8188
(Use FPGA, CPLD and LabView for development)
ImageARM (ARM system for image processing)
http://www.google.com.hk/
url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=10&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pixelplus.com%2Fko%2Fdata%2Fsolution_brochure_eng.pdf&ei=3bduSqeQJMGfkQXPl9zHBQ&usg=AFQjCNHeXzNj871xea0sHzvlc4p7qW8Jcw&sig2=UIkdJDLTLisYq_la_hR5ig
CMUcam3
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/publication_view.html?pub_id=5745
(Open Embedded Vision plaform base on ARM7)
Embedded Vision Library
VXL (C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation)
http://vxl.sourceforge.net/
Port OpenCV to DSP(TI TMS320C64x)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emcv/

Embedded Vision Library
VXL (C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation)
http://vxl.sourceforge.net/
Port OpenCV to DSP(TI TMS320C64x)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emcv/
Related Book
Embedded Computer Vision (Advances in Pattern Recognition)
http://books.google.com/
books?id=u19-WU_odOYC&pg=PR2&dq=Embedded+Computer+Vision&ei=czBvSouUIIv8lQTT7ODfDg
Related Paper
Facet: Towards a Smart Camera Network of Mobile Phones
- Use Mobile phone as embedded vision platform,
- adv : wide area network, low cost (mass production), portable
http://www.google.com.hk/
url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vs.inf.ethz.ch%2Fres%2Fpapers%2Fbolligph-
facet2007.pdf&ei=vi5vSuTWH9L_kAWDr6XFBQ&usg=AFQjCNFTZAyEfkPydbLTXEHp6k4t4TJK1A&sig2=GSebDq07JNJGKhIS-
MKWog
MIDSCA: TOWARDS A SMART CAMERA ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILE INTERNET DEVICES
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/
stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4635713&isnumber=4635670
A smart camera application: DSP-based people detection and tracking
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/
GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JEIME5000009000003000336000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
Real-time Feature Tracking on an Embedded Vision Sensor for Small Vision-guided
Unmanned Vehicles
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/
stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4269882&isnumber=4269830
ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSIENT VISION SENSOR
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/
stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4041053&isnumber=4041019
Related Conference
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
http://www.icdsc.org/
CVPR 2006 Tutorial on Embedded Computer Vision
http://www.movesinstitute.org/~kolsch/pubs/EmbeddedCV.html
OpenCV on embedded linux
ARM-wrestling with OpenCV
http://www.computer-vision-software.com/blog/2009/03/arm-wrestling-with-opencv/
嵌入式ARM系统中安装OpenCV
http://www.opencv.org.cn/
index.php?title=%E5%B5%8C%E5%85%A5%E5%BC%8FARM%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%9F%E4%B8%AD%E5%AE%89%E8%A3%85