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ECE692 - Advanced Topics in Computer Vision


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Textbooks

  • D. H. Ballard and C. M. Brown, Computer Vision, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1982. (Online Book)
  • B. K. P. Horn, Robot Vision, MIT Press, 1986.
  • R. M. Haralick and L. G. Shapiro, Computer and Robot Vision, Vols. I and II, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1992.
  • V. S. Nalwa, A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1993.
  • L. Shapiro and G. Stockman, Computer Vision, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2000.
  • E. Trucco and A. Verri, Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1998.
  • M. Sonka, V. Hlavac and R. Boyle, Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision, Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, Ca., 1999.
  • D. Forsyth and J. Ponce, Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall, 2001.
  • E. R. Davies, Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms Practicalities, 3rd ed., Elsevier, 2005.
  • CVonline: Vision Related Books including Online Books and Book Support Sites

Papers


  • [Marr&Hildreth:80] D. Marr and E. Hildreth, "Theory of Edge Detection," Proc. Royal Soc. of London, vol. B207, pp. 187-217, 1980. (pdf)
  • [Prewitt:70] J. M. S. Prewitt, "Object enhancement and extraction," in: Picture Processing and Psychopictories, B. S. Lipkin and A. Rosenfeld, eds., Academic Press, New York (1970). (pdf)
  • [Sobel:70] I. E. Sobel. Camera Models and Machine Perception. PhD thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, 1970.
  • [Canny:86] J. Canny, "A computational approach to edge detection," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 8(6), 1986. (pdf)
  • [Frei&Chen:77] W. Frei and C. Chen, "Fast boundary detection: a generalization and a new algorithm," IEEE Trans. on Computers, 26(2), 1977. (pdf)
  • [Besag:86] J. Besag, "On the statistical analysis of dirty pictures," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), 48(3):259-302, 1986. (pdf)
  • [Geman&Geman:84] S. Geman and D. Geman, "Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions, and the Bayesian restoration of images," IEEE TPAMI 6(6):721-741, 1984. (pdf)
  • [BM3D:07] K. Dabov, A. Foi, V. Katkovnik, K. Egiazarian, "Image denoising by sparse 3-d transform-domain collaborative filtering," IEEE TIP 16(8):2080-2095, 2007. (pdf)
  • [NLM:05] A. Buades, B. Coll, J.M. Morel, "A non-local algorithm for image denoising," CVPR 2005. (pdf)
  • [TV:92] L.I. Rudin, S. Osher, E. Fatemi, "Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms," Physica D 60:259-268, 1992. (pdf)
  • [Haralick:PAMI87] R.M. Haralick, S.R. Sternberg, X. Zhuang, "Image analysis using mathematical morphology," TPAMI 9(4):532-550, July 1987.
  • [MeanShift:PAMI02] D. Comaniciu, P. Meer, "Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis," TPAMI 24(5):603-619, May 2002.
  • [MeanShift:PAMI95] Y. Cheng, "Mean shift, mode seeking, and clustering," TPAMI 17(8):790-799, August 1995.
  • [MeanShift:TIT75] K. Fukunaga, L.D. Hostetler, "The estimation of the gradient of a density function, with applications in pattern recognition," TIT 21(1):32-40, January 1975.

Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Elsevier
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)
  • Pattern Recognition, Elsevier
  • Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier
  • International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer.

Conferences

  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (submission: early November)
  • International Conference of Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) (submission: late March)
  • Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • Computer Vision Conferences

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