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. , Table of Contents 27.1 Scientific Papers on Computer Vision 27.2 Research Groups in Computer Vision 27.3 Vendors, Code and Datasets for Related to Computer Vision 27.3.1 Vendors of Related Products 27.3.2 Code for Computer Vision Algorithms 27.3.3 Databases or Datasets for Applications 27.3.4 Patents 27.3.5 Survey Articles 27.4 The Complete Conference Listing for Computer Vision and Image Analysis 27.5 Other Useful Sites 27.5.1 CV-Online Compendium of Computer Vision 27.5.2 Vision ListNews group 27.5.3 Professional Societies 27.5.4 Other Compiled Lists of Research, Sources, etc. 27 Other This page contains a pointers to a number of listings for general . 27.1 Scientific Papers on Computer Vision The Computer Vision Bibliography provides access to annotated information on over 101,000 scientific papers in the field of computer vision, image processing, character recognition and other related topics. See the totals of authors, titles, and other references. This listing is more than just an unordered list of papers, there are cross references to similar papers in other parts of the bibliography, directly related papers are included in one entry and it is arranged by (some may say, arbitrary) topic. The top level bibliography page has links to browse papers by author (including author sorted by year to reduce your effort in creating annual reports), conference or journal reference, keywords, and a KWIC index (Key Word In Context). I have added the historical Rosenfeld Bibliography data but it is incomplete (i.e. it ends in 1998) and is the result of an automatic translation so there are errors. 27.2 Research Groups in Computer Vision There are many groups engaged in research in this field. These groups generally are either in some university or are a part of a larger company, with a few small computer vision companies. University groups tend to promote information (in years past some said "Paper is our most important product," but today you should replace paper with information) and provide links to individuals, research projects, and online versions of papers. It is often best to look on the research group or author’s individual web site for publicly accessible online versions of technical papers. Companies tend to downplay who is there and give general information about the research and more details on products, and usually do not have technical papers (though this is not universally true). Many companies are listed primarily as vendors of related products rather than research groups even though many of these companies have groups that are primarily involved with research. These are listed on the Vendors pages noted later. Complete Listing of Research Groups Listing of researchers sorted by Research Groups and the list of researchers with no research group information Research Groups in the US lists research groups in the US. Research Groups in the Americas lists research groups in the Americas other than the US. Primarily Canada, but includes Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean. Research Groups in Europe lists research groups in Europe. Research Groups in Asia, Australia, Oceania lists the rest of the world. 27.3 Vendors, Code and Datasets for Related to Computer Vision Vendors want to sell a result rather than enable you to develop a new method. For some tasks, code may be available so that you can skip the vendor and do it yourself. But for most really interesting tasks, neither a vendor or code exists to solve your problemthat is the point of research and development. 27.3.1 Vendors of Related Products For some products I have a list of vendors, which sometimes overlap the research groups list and sometimes do not. These companies supply the results of research, not necessarily the equipment you need to perform research (i.e. I do not provide an extensive list for cameras and computers). Vendors are listed throughout the bibliography, usually in the appropriate section for the product, but an extracted list, ordered by product, is available at the Vision Bib Vendor Listing. 27.3.2 Code for Computer Vision Algorithms The standard location for basic code for computer vision algorithms is the OpenCV Library from Intel. Many research groups build on top of this OpenCV code base. The avaliability of code for specific techniques or applications is harder to predict, but some implementations are made available by the authors. Try the listing extracted from the Vision Bibliography in the Vision Bib Code Reference Listing. You may want a computer vision system by name (e.g. Acronym), for this you can look under the Vision Bib Computer Vision Systems Listing. A number of lists of code for sub-areas (e.g. OCR) have been created by researchers in the past, but often these are no longer maintained. These lists are linked in the above listing. 27.3.3 Databases or Datasets for Applications Test data is available in bits and pieces and in several larger repositories, A number of references are given in the Vision Bib Dataset Listing. Generally, to avoid confusion, in this bibliography database is used for database systems or research and would apply to image database query techniques rather than a database containing images for use for specific applications. To reduce confusion I have chosen to use dataset for such collections of images. 27.3.4 Patents For any area in computer vision and image processing, there are patents that cover a number of large and small developments. Many have related papers, others do not. Looking through patents you find ones that seem to make grand claims, but do very little and others that relate to important developments and make less broad claims. There are many other image related patents for sensors, combinations of cameras, basic transmission and display that are more device related than image analysis related. Most of these are not included. A list by title, of over 2300 US Patents related to Computer Vision is available. A second listing, by US Patent number, can be found under the Patents by Patent Number listing. For a legal patent search, these should only be considered a starting point. Start with something that looks promising and look in one of the various listings, each of which has different options to search the referenced patents, the later patents that reference this one, by topic, by name, etc. There are, at least, 5 sources for patent information, presented in different ways, all with full text and images. For example for a single patent you can look at: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Number search (and give, e.g. 4650333a number chosen randomly from the list of patents.) 4,650,333 from Google Patents 4,650,333 from Free Patents Online 4,650,333 from Delphion 4,650,333 from Patent Storm Each of these has various search options, links to referenced and referencing patents, etc. Most of the patents listed in this bibliography have a link to one of these general listings (more to the Google data than others). Note also that (as of June 18, 2007) the Patent office has created a peer review process for software patents. Peer Review Patents Information. This is intended to expand the pool of people who actually look at a submission and comment on how original it really is. In many cases, the patent is listed along with some of the related published papers by the inventors, though many of the patents have no related paper. 27.3.5 Survey Articles Surveys of particular topics are scattered throughout the Bibliography in the appropriate sections. Many of the basic topics have a subsection devoted to general or survey articles so a good starting point for surveys is the contents page for the appropriate major topic. Also you can look through the Vision Bib Survey Listing. The CV-Online Compendium of Computer Vision has general overviews on many topics. Some of these are included in the Survey listing. 27.4 The Complete Conference Listing for Computer Vision and Image Analysis The Computer Vision...