Analysis and Recognition in Images and Video – Resources

Matlab resources

• Matlab: Documentation, Getting Started, etc.
• Matlab Primer
• Vectorization Techniques  (the right way to code in Matlab)
• Piotr Dollar’s Image & Video Toolbox for Matlab (lots of useful functions to save you time on your projects)
• The Lightspeed Matlab toolbox (If you want things to run faster)

Tutorials

• Recognizing and Learning Object Categories (ICCV 2005 Tutorial)

How to build a presentation

• Yoav Schechner’s tips for a building a good presentation

General computer vision resources

• The Computer Vision homepage (an index to vision resources on line)
• CV Online (closest thing to an online vision textbook, with topics contributed by many experts–terrific resource)
• USC Computer Vision Bibliography, compiled by Keith Price
• Computer vision companies, compiled by David Lowe

Free code

• SIFT code by Andrea Vedaldi
• SIFT binaries by David Lowe
• MSER by Andrea Vedaldi
• Bag-Of-Features by Andrea Vedaldi
• Oxford’s affine covariant features
• Ivan Laptev’s space-time interest points
• Interest points and space-time descriptors from INRIA