CVonline: The Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision

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Overview

CVonline is a resource for computer vision, machine vision, image analysis and some visual psychophysics and visual neurophysiology. The main elements are:

• a hierarchical index of topics with links into Wikipedia
• a set of non-Wikipedia content, including public datasets, free software, a list of image analysis applications, a list of subject area books including free to read books.
• a set of other resources useful to the educational community

Because of the improvements in the content available in Wikipedia, it is now possible to find about 1000 of the 2000 topics in CVonline.

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Topic Hierarchy in GoogleSites that index Wikipedia pages

1. Databases and indexing related concepts
2. Generic computer vision methods
3. Geometric and other image features and methods
4. Geometry and mathematics
5. Image physics related concepts
6. Image Processing Architectures & Control Structures
7. Image transformations and filters
8. Introductory visual neurophysiology
9. Introductory visual psychophysics/psychology
10. Motion and time sequence analysis related concepts
11. Non-sequential realization methods
12. Object, world and scene representations
13. Recognition and registration methods
14. Scene understanding/image analysis methods
15. Sensor fusion, registration and planning methods
16. Sensors and properties
17. System models, calibration and parameter estimation methods
18. Visual learning related methods and concepts

Wikipedia general topic pages

1. Computer vision
2. Digital image processing
3. Image processing
4. Machine vision
5. Medical imaging
6. Photogrammetry
7. Sensors

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Non-Wikipedia CVonline resources

1. List of image analysis applications
2. List of imaging related books including online books and book support sites
3. Image and video databases for algorithm evaluation
4. Visual processing software, models & environments
5. Some famous vision systems

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Additional Vision Educational Resources

• USC Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography + Mirror site
• Conference USC Listing + Mirror Site
• Computer Vision Home Page
• HIPR2 image processing teaching package.
• Pattern Recognition resources assembled by the Int. Association for Pattern Recognition.
• IPOL - Image Processing Online: IPOL is a journal of image processing and image analysis algorithms and a repository of image processing workshops.
• Free online academic resources.
• Glossaries of useful vision terms:
  1. Visionary: A useful glossary of vision terms.
• A collection of useful maxim's and proverbs for developers of vision system applications (Paul Whelan, whelanp@eeng.dcu.ie)
• An online resource for people working in the design and development of practical machine vision systems. (Paul Whelan, whelanp@eeng.dcu.ie)
• FAQs:
  • comp.robotics FAQ
  • Medical Image FAQ
  • Medical Vision FAQ (mainly human sight problems)
  • sci.image.processing
• Vision List Digest and Archives
• Imageworld community email list
• Pixel Digest and Archives
• UK Higher Education Library Image eXchange, an image database.
• Earl F. Glynn II's Image Processing Page (via WayBack Machine)
• Lecture notes on image processing and computer vision in French (Marc Van Droogenbroeck)
• Some interactive computer vision demos (Mark Nixon)
• Computer Vision Wikicity (Mark Sugrue)

Videos of Talks

1. Slides and Video of Univ. of Central Florida's Distinguished Speaker Series.
2. ICRA'17 Workshop on Event based Vision (Davide Scaramuzza)

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Editing CVonline Topic Hierarchy

We had originally tried to create the hierarchy of CVonline inside Wikipedia so that the community could edit the structure. However, the pages were deleted. If you try to develop content in wikipedia, you might be interested in some of the problems that you will encounter. Google Site's web page hosting is great except it is not so easily open community editable - however, if you would like to contribute to these pages, email me (Bob Fisher - rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk) your mail address and I can add you as an editor.

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Administration

• We gratefully thank all of the contributors. Many of the early ones are listed here.
• There have been many helpers with setting up or extending aspects of CVonline, including in particular: Scott Blunsden, Helmut Cantzler, Judith Law, Georgios Papadimitriou, Andreea Radulescu, Jorge Reyes-Ortiz, and Aris Valtazanos.
• Funding for various restructurings has come from the ECVision network, the euCognition network and the British Machine Vision Association.

Comments and suggestions to: , who is really Bob Fisher.

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Other CV Online Sites

Please note that there are other "CV Online" sites, including:

1. An employment services site in Hungary

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There have been accesses since November 1999.

© 2016 Robert Fisher