Imaging and Computer Vision Resources

Abstract

This appendix contains a list of some resources for computer vision and imaging, including commercial products, open-source projects, organizations, and standards bodies.

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This appendix contains a list of some resources for computer vision and imaging, including commercial products, open-source projects, organizations, and standards bodies.

Commercial Products

Name	Matlab
Description	Industry standard math package with many scientific package options for various fields including imaging and computer vision. Includes a decent software development environment, providing add-on libraries for computer vision, image processing, visualization, more. Suited well for code development.
Library API	Extensive API libraries Internal to the SDE.
SDE	Includes software development environment for coding.
Open Source	Not for the product, but possibly for some code developed by users.
Link	http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/

Name	Mathematica
Description	Industry standard math package with many scientific package options for various fields, including image processing and computer vision. Excellent for creation of publication-ready visualizations and math notebooks. Add-on libraries for computer vision, image processing, visualization, more.
Library API	Extensive API libraries Internal to the SDE.
SDE	Includes a default function-based script development environment, and some code development add-ons.
Open Source	Not for the product, but possibly for code developed by users.
Link	http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/

Name	Intel TBB, Intel IPP, Intel CILK++
Description	Intel provides libraries, languages, and compilers optimized for the IA instruction set. Intel TBB is a multi-threading library for single and multi-core processors, Intel IPP provides imaging and computer vision performance primitives optimized for IA and SIMD instructions and in some cases GPGPU, and Intel CILK++ is a language for writing SIMD/SIMT parallel code.
Library API	Extensive API libraries.
SDE	No, but Intel CILK++ is a programming language.
Open Source	No.
Link	http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-tbb http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-ipp

Open Source

Name	OpenCV
Description	Industry standard computer vision and image processing library, used worldwide by major corporations and others.
Library API	Extensive API library.
SDE	No.
Open Source	BSD license.
Link	http://opencv.org/

Name	ImageJ - FIJI
Description	Application for image processing, visualization, and computer vision. Developed by the USG National Institutes of Health[502], available for public use. Extensive. FIJI is a distribution of ImageJ with many plug-ins submitted by the user community.
Library API	No.
SDE	No.
Open Source	Public domain use.
Link	http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/index.html http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/plugins/ http://fiji.sc/Fiji

Name	VLFEAT
Description	C library containing a range of common computer vision algorithms for feature description, pattern matching, and image processing.
Library API	Extensive API library.
SDE	No.
Open Source	BSD license.
Link	http://vlfeat.org

Name	VTK
Description	C++ library containing a range of common image processing, graphics, and data visualization functions. Includes GUI widgets. VTL also provides consulting.
Library API	Extensive API library.
SDE	No.
Open Source	BSD license.
Link	http://vtk.org/

Name	Meshlab
Description	Application for visualizing, rendering, annotating, and converting 3D data meshes such as point clouds and CAD designs. Extensive. Uses the VCG library from ISTI – CNR.
Library API	No.
SDE	No.
Open Source	BSD license.
Link	http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

Name	PfeLIb
Description	Library for image processing and computer vision acceleration.
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	No.
Link	See reference[495].

Name	Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Description	Extensive open-source library for dealing primarily with 3D point clouds, including implementations of many cutting-edge 3D descriptors from the latest academic research and visualization methods.
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	Yes.
Link	http://pointclouds.org/downloads/ http://pointclouds.org/documentation/ http://docs.pointclouds.org/trunk/a02944.html

Name	Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox
Description	Library for machine learning and pattern matching. Extensive.
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	GPL.
Link	http://shogun-toolbox.org/page/features/

Name	Halide High-Performance Image Processing Language
Description	C++ language classes optimized for SIMD, SIMT, and GPGPU.
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	Open-source MIT license.
Link	http://halide-lang.org/

Name	REIN (Recognition INfrastructure) Vision Algorithm Framework
Description	Framework for computer vision in robotics; uses ROS operating system. See references[397,503].
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	Open-source MIT license.
Link	http://wiki.ros.org/rein

Name	ECTO –Graph Network Construction for Computer Vision
Description	Library for creating directed acyclic graphs of functions for computer vision pipelines, supports threading. Written in a C++/Python framework. Can integrate with OpenCV, PCL and ROS.
Library API	Yes.
SDE	No.
Open Source	Apparently.
Link	http://plasmodic.github.io/ecto/

Organizations, Institutions, and Standards

Microsoft Research http://academic.research.microsoft.com/	Microsoft Research has one of the largest staff of computer vision experts in the world, and actively promotes conferences and research. Provides several good resources online.
CIE http://www.cie.co.at/	International Commission on Illumination, abbreviated CIE after the French name, provides standard illuminant data for a range of light sources as it pertains to color science, as well as standards for the well-known color spaces CIE XYZ, CIE Lab and CIE Luv.
ICC http://www.color.org/index.xalter	International Color Consortium provides the ICC standard color profiles for imaging devices, as well as many other industry standards, including the sRGB color space for color displays.
CAVE Computer Vision Laboratory http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/	Computer Vision Laboratory at Columbia University, directed by Dr. Shree Nayar, provides world-class imaging and vision research.
RIT Munsel Color Science Laboratory http://www.rit.edu/cos/colorscience/	Rochester Institute of Technology Munsel Color Science Laboratory is among the leading research institutions in the area or color science and imaging, provides a wide range of resources, and has with strong ties to industry imaging giants such as Kodak, Xerox, and others.
OPENVX KHRONOS http://www.khronos.org/openvx	OPENVX is a proposed standard for low-level vision primitive acceleration, operated with the KHRONOS standards group.
SPIE Society for Optics and Photonics Journal of Medical Imaging Journal of Electronic Imaging Journal of Applied Remote Sensing http://spie.org/	Interdisciplinary approach to the science of light, including photonics, sensors, and imaging; promotes conferences, publishes journals.
IEEE CVPR, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition PAMI, Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence ICCV, International Conference on Computer Vision IP, Trans. Image Processing http://ieee.org	Society for publication of journals and conferences, including various computer vision and imaging topics.
CVF Computer Vision Foundation http://www.cv-foundation.org/	Promotes computer vision, provides dissemination of papers.
NIST – Image Group (USG) National Institute Of Standards http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/	Promotes computer vision and imaging grand challenges; covers biometrics standards, fingerprint testing, face, iris, multimodal testing, next generation test bed.
I20 - Darpa information innovation office (USG) http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/ http://www.darpa.mil/OpenCatalog/index.html	Extensive array of computer vision and related program research for military applications. Some work is released to the public via the OpenCatalog.

Journals and Their Abbreviations

CVGIP Graphical Models /graphical Models and Image Processing /computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing

CVIU Computer Vision and Image Understanding

IJCV International Journal of Computer Vision

IVC Image and Vision Computing

JMIV Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

MVA Machine Vision and Applications

TMI - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Conferences and Their Abbreviations

3DIM International Conference on 3-D Imaging and Modeling

3DPVT 3D Data Processing Visualization and Transmission

ACCV Asian Conference on Computer Vision

AMFG Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures

BMCV Biologically Motivated Computer Vision

BMVC British Machine Vision Conference

CRV Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision

CVPR Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

CVRMed Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine

DGCI Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery

ECCV European Conference on Computer Vision

EMMCVPR Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

FGR IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition

ICARCV International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision

ICCV International Conference on Computer Vision

ICCV Workshops

ICVS International Conference on Computer Vision Systems

ICWSM International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

ISVC International Symposium on Visual Computing

NIPS Neural Information Processing Systems

Scale-Space Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision

VLSM Variational, Geometric, and Level Set Methods in Computer Vision

WACV Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision

Online Resources

Name	CVONLINE
Description	Huge list of computer vision software and projects, indexed to Wikipedia
Link	http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/environ.htm

Name	Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography
Description	Huge index of links to computer vision topics, references, software, more
Link	http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contents.html

Name	NIST Online Engineering Statistics Handbook (USG)
Description	Handbook for statistics, includes examples and software
Link	http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/

Name	The Computer Industry (David Lowe)
Description	Includes links to major computer vision and imaging product companies
Link	http://www.cs.ubc.ca/∼lowe/vision.html