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The Computer Vision Homepage -  .

- Established at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994 to provide a central location for World Wide Web links relating to computer vision research.

Alper Yilmaz: Computer Vision - - Research papers on topics including object tracking in EO and IR Imagery, Face Recognition, Pose Recovery, and Action Recognition.

AMOVIP-DB Images and Sequences for Vision Research - - A collection of images for research, including medical images and satellite images. This web site contains only still images.

Charless C. Fowlkes - - Research papers and software on statistical approaches to perceptual organization in low and mid-level vision. Quantitative analysis of spatial gene expression patterns in biological development.

Cognex Corporation - - Designs, develops, manufactures and markets family of machine vision computer systems which are used to replace human vision in a wide range of manufacturing processes.

Computer Vision Handbook - - Primarily intended for a researcher trying to decipher papers outside his own area of expertise, or a graduate student starting research.

The Condensation Algorithm - - A good descriptive page about the condensation algorithm. Contains downloadable source code, results, publications and links to related work.

Content-based image retrieval - - Employs texture analysis via a Gabor filter bank, CIE Lab space color histogram, and structural analysis using perceptual grouping principles.

CVonline: Compendium of Computer Vision - - Online encyclopedia of computer vision concepts and methods. Complete articles contributed by different authors on various computer vision topics. Also includes links to additional vision resources.

3D Image Model Generation from Stereo X-ray Images - - Information in the areas: x-ray radiation, stereo x-ray imaging, monocular and binocular cues, stereo dual-energy x-ray machine, and research progress.

3D Imaging Research Group - - The Research in this group is concentrated in 3D X-ray and Optical Light Imaging. Specifically, Stereoscopy, Material Identification, 3D Information Extraction and 3D Display Techniques.

Fast Stereo Matching Demo - - Demo of a fast stereo matching algorithm, which uses a pyramid structure, fast correlation, rectangular subregioning and dynamic programming techniques.

Hough Transform - - Concise introduction and demonstration of the Hough Transform, used for finding lines and edges in images, along with pointers to more advanced techniques for partial and curved lines.

Image Labs International - - This machine vision, and imaging systems integrator offers vision hardware sales and software packages.

ImageCanada. Guide to Canadian Image Resources - - Canadian image related resources on the web: imaging, image processing, image analysis, computer vision, computer graphics, digital art and multimedia, companies, academic groups, conferences, organizations, job.

Linearity Detection by Quadrupole Convolution - - The Quadrupole Convolution technique may be a part of human vision and can improve machine vision. This site provides details about how it works and how it might be used.

Louis-Philippe Morency Homepage - - Face tracking, Stereo vision, Robot navigation.

Michael J. Black - - Opitcal flow, human motion tracking and recognition, robust estimation, and probabilistic inference. Updated publications, source code for motion estimation, and new image sequences.

New Model for Light Interaction with the Retina of the Eye - - Presents a new geometrical model for light interaction with the retina of the eye and its implications to the vision process. Results include a logical explanation for the trichromicity of vision and a seeming verification of Edwin Land's color vision experiments.

Open Source - Computer Vision Library - - Intel's open source computer vision library contains implementation of useful algorithms, like optical flow methods, snakes, binary morphological operations, pyramids, and camera calibration.

Rachid Deriche - - Research Director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control).

Seeing is Believing: Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence - - "This article will look at the role that knowledge plays in computer vision and how the use of reasoning, context, and knowledge in visual tasks reduces the complexity of the general problem." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.

USC Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography: Table of Contents - - The largest online vision bibliography of this kind. Papers organized by authors, journal/conference title, paper title and topic. Very useful reference resource.

Visionary - A Dictionary of terminology in vision research - - Dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.

Zamir License Plate Recognition LPR systems - - Zamir Recognition Systems is a leading Israeli developer and manufacturer of license plate recognition systems also known as LPR, NPR or ANPR. These systems are used for vehicle access control, security and parking revenue control.