References

References

My Google Library
MIT Open Courseware - A vast array of online course material, including video lectures and transcripts
- Make sure to visit Variable Speed Lectures using VLC
- EECS courses
freepatentsonline

Computer Vision

Seeing: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision - Frisby and Stone, Second Edition 2010
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications - Rick Szeliski. The ultimate computer vision survey
Animal Eyes - Land & Nilsson

Tutorials

Active Learning - Burr Settles, 2010
PCA - Lindsay I Smith, 2002
Gamma correction - Alvy Ray Smith
EM - Andrew Ng
Steerable Filters - David Heeger, 1998
Graphical Models - Michael Jordan, Yair Weiss
SIFT
Projective geometry
Vanishing points
Some Notes on Unit Quaternions and Rotation - Berthold K.P. Horn, 2001

Courses

Image Understanding - David Lowe, UBC 2010
Computational Photography - Rob Fergus, NYU
Computer Vision - Rob Fergus, NYU
Advances in Computer Vision - Antonio Torralba, MIT 2010
Intro to Computer Vision - Fei-Fei Li, Stanford 2009
Intro to Computer Vision - Michael Black, Brown 2009
Computational Photography - Yacov Hel-Or, IDC 2009
Image Processing - Advanced topics seminar, Yacov Hel-Or, IDC 2008
Learning-Based Methods in Vision - Alyosha Efros, CMU 2007

Code

MoCA Project - Movie content analysis
Computer Vision Source Code @ CMU
MRF minimization
Computer Vision @ Western
KLT Tracker
A simple object detector with boosting - Antonio Torralba, ICCV 2005 short course
Pyramid toolbox, steerable filters - Eero Simoncelli
Peter Kovesi's functions for computer vision
SIFT - 1, 2
OpenCV - Computer Vision library with many useful implementations
- Documentation
- Introduction to programming with OpenCV

Kinect

Photography

Lens Genealogy

Learning and Inference

The Elements of Statistical Learning - Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman, SE 2009
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques - Koller, Friedman, 2010

code

Software Packages for Graphical Models / Bayesian Networks - Maintained by Kevin Murphy (Last updated: 2010)
HMM Toolbox for Matlab - Kevin Murphy (Last updated: 2005)

Computation Theory

Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach - Arora and Barak, 2009 [online draft]
Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Michael Sipser
Randomized Methods in Computation - Lecture notes by Oded Goldreich

Optimization

Convex Optimization – Boyd and Vandenberghe
An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain - Shewchuk, 1994

Graph Theory

Spectral Graph Theory and its Applications - A course by Dan Spielman
- A good introductory survey
Spectral Graph Theory - Fan R. K. Chung, 1997 (Limited Preview)
Eigenspaces of Graphs - Dragos Cvetkovic, Peter Rowlinson, Slobodan Simic, 1997

Psychophysics

The Method of Paired Comparisons - H. A. David, 1988 (2nd edition)
Psychophysics: The Fundamentals - George A. Gescheider, 3rd edition 1997 (Limited Preview)

Other

Why Buildings Fall Down - Levi, Salvadori, and
Why Buildings Stand Up - Salvadori