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MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?
Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT graduate class, aimed at figuring out whether MIT could, or should, mount an entry into the $20-million Google Lunar X-Prize competition announced last fall, has arrived at the bottom line: Yes, we can (technically)!
Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," held on Thursday, May 8, at MIT.
Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot star
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500
A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms.
Brains informing computers, and vice versa
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
After many years, Tomaso Poggio's two parallel lines of research--one aimed at using computers to understand how the brain works, the other at improving the abilities of computers to "think"--have begun to converge.
MIT students design graduate student development program
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science will describe a novel professional development program for graduate students and its impact at MIT at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Boston.
MIT finishes fourth in DARPA Grand Challenge
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500
MIT's automated Land Rover, packed with computers and electronic sensors, finished fourth in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The MIT vehicle, competing for the first time, was one of only six to complete the challenging 55-mile course.

Latest Issue of Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive dynamic probabilistic networks for distributed uncertainty processing
Shi, DongyuYou, Jinyuan
An engineering approach to sociable robots
Deniz, OscarHernandez, MarioLorenzo, JavierCastrillOn, Modesto
Arabic writer identification based on hybrid spectral-statistical measures
Al-Dmour, AymanZitar, Raed Abu

 

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500 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.

3D Image Model Generation from Stereo X-ray Images - Comprehensive information in the areas: x-ray radiation, stereo x-ray imaging, monocular and binocular cues, stereo dual-energy x-ray machine, and research progress.
Meta Description: [ Comprehensive 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.
Meta Description: [ Research is concentrated in 3D X-ray and Optical Light Imaging. Specifically, Stereoscopy, Material Identification, 3D Information Extraction and 3D Display Techniques. ]

Alper Yilmaz: Computer Vision - Research papers of A. Yilmaz 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 - Project descriptions and downloadable publications on segmentation and recognition.

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.
Meta Description: [ Cognex Machine Vision Systems and Machine Vision Sensors, Cognex is the world leader in the design and manufacture of complete machine vision systems, vision sensors, ID readers, and web/surface inspection systems ]

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

Content-based image retrieval - Employs texture analysis via a Gabor filter bank, CIE Lab space color histogram, and structural analysis using perceptual grouping principles.
Meta Description: [ CIRES - A content based image retrieval system ]

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.
Meta Description: [ CVonline entry page ]

500 ECVNet Image DataBases Page - Contains pointers to sites offering public access to image collections via the Internet. Color and grayscale still images, medical images, textures, sequences, stereo pairs, and range images.

Edouard Duchesnay Home Pages - Distributed Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Image segmentation Papers, articles, thesis

Fast Stereo Matching Demo - Demo of a fast stereo matching algorithm, which uses a pyramid structure, fast correlation, rectangular subregioning and dynamic programming techniques.
Meta Description: [ stereo matching, fast algorithm, cross correlation, fast correlation, dynamic programming, multiresolution, coarse-to-fine, pyramid, Box filtering, Similarity measure, image matching, stereo vision, computer vision, correspondence problem, area matching, epipolar image, stereo algorithm, rec... ]

500 Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori Pattern Recognition - Italian Chapter of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

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.
Meta Description: [ An online demo of the Hough transform in action, including an application to a satellite track detection problem ]

Image Labs International - This machine vision, and imaging systems integrator offers vision hardware sales and software packages.
Meta Description: [ Machine Vision and imaging technology experts in vision systems, vision inspection, and analysis. ]

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, jobs

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.
Meta Description: [ Machine vision and human vision understood with field theory. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Home page of Michael J. Black, Brown University, Department of Computer Science ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Rethinking the Process of Vision. Physicist Gerald Huth Ph.D. writes on the topic of A New Physics-Based Model for Light Interaction with the Retina of the Eye: Rethinking the Vision Process ]

Omid Jahromi - Papers and manuscripts on statistical multirate signal processing. In particular, multirate spectrum estimation, multirate sensor fusion, and information theory of multirate systems.

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.
Meta Description: [ Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence; ACM Crossroads 3-1 ]

Spectral Fusion Technologies - Machine vision technology research and development into neural networks for food classification, X-ray and image sensing. Designers of the BoneScanTM contaminant detection systems used in the poultry and food industries.
Meta Description: [ Machine vision and industrial imaging systems technology company and manufacturers of BoneScan - an online contaminant detection system used in the poultry industry. ]

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

The Machine Vision Portal - News and articles about machine vision.
Meta Description: [ Das Machine Vision® Portal bietet rund um die industrielle Bildverarbeitung alle wichtigen Informationen für den Machine Vision Anwender. Recherche im Buyers Guide, Product Guide, und im Application Guide helfen dem Anwender den passenden Partner, individuelle Produkte und Anwendungslösungen a... ]

the VISLIST - Vision List Digest/Archives. Archives of internet newsgroup COMP.AI.VISION. Generally contains call-for-papers, job postings, questions and answers and references
Meta Description: [ the Vislist: Vision List Digest/Archives and COMP.AI.VISION homepage. ]

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.

Visión Artificial y Reconocimiento de Patrones - VARPA is a research group affiliated to the LFCIA laboratory of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Coruña .
Meta Description: [ Grupo de Visión Artificial VARPA ]

Vision 1 - Machine Vision Information Library - Huge resource of links for vision groups, news groups, conferences, glossary and image databases.
Meta Description: [ Machine Vision and imaging technology experts in vision systems, vision inspection, and analysis. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ 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. ]

VISIONx - Visual inspection software and machine vision systems - Metrology software and systems for machine vision, visual inspection, high-accuracy measurements, image analysis, automatic defect detection, automated optical inspection (AOI), and microscopy.
Meta Description: [ Machine vision software and systems for visual inspection, high accuracy measurement, and image analysis using VisionGauge ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Zamir Recognition Systems is a leading Israeli developer and manufacturer of license plate recognition systems (LPR, NPR or ANPR), used for vehicle access control, security, and parking revenue control. ]