Useful Links for Computational Vision (somewhat out-of-date)

Information Sources

• Vision Science Home Page (at NASA-Ames)
• Computer Vision Home Page (CMU)
• ViperLib: Library of images and presentation materials for the study of visual perception.
• SciCentral has index pages for various science and engineering resources.
• Stephen David and Ben Hayden's NeuroTree, an "academic family tree" for the field of Neuroscience.
• Jim Perlewitz's Computational Neuroscience on the Web
• Eric Chudler's Systems Neuroscience Resources
• Rolf Kötter's European Computational Neuroscience Pages
• NeuroGuide Neurosciences on the Internet.
• Signal Processing Data Base (Rice)
• Margaret Fleck's online Computer Vision Handbook
• Thomas Minka's online glossary of Statistical Learning / Pattern Recognition
• Vision Dictionary
• Wavelet Digest

Bibliographies, Citation indexes, Preprints

• Google Scholar - academic web search engine
• Scirus - scientific web search engine
• Faculty of 1000 - selected articles in biological sciences, based on recommendations of over 1000 researchers.
• PubMed (NIH). Bibliographic database for biomedical research.
• CiteSeer, A Scientific Literature Citation Index (primarily Computer-science oriented. originally: NEC Research Institute. Currently: NSF/NASA/Microsoft).
• Science and Technology Preprints (Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Energy). Automated searchable collection of links to online pre/re-prints.
• JSTOR archive of journal articles (includes old issues)
• arXiv e-Print archive. Physics, Math, Nonlinear Sciences, Computer Science.
• Digital Bibliography & Library Project - Computer science bibliography server.
• Computer Vision and Image Processing Bibliography (USC). Semi-automated bibliographic index, searchable by author, title, keywords, journal/conferrence - very useful!
• Collection of Computer Vision and Graphics Bibliographies (Universität Karlsruhe). In BibTeX format.

Conferences

• ICCV (Int'l Conf. on Computer Vision): 1998 / 1999 / 2001 / 2003 / 2005 / 2007 / 2009 / 2011
• CVPR (IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition): 1996 / 1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011
• ECCV (European Conf. on Computer Vision): 1996 / 1998 / 2000 / 2002 / 2004 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• ICIP (IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Processing): 1995 / 1996 / 1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012
• ICPR (Int'l Conf. Pattern Recognition): 1996 / 1998 / 2000 / 2002 / 2004 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• CAIP (Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns): 1997 / 1999 / 2001 / 2003 / 2005 / 2007 / 2009 / 2011
• ICASSP (IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing): 1996 / 1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003-CANCELLED / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011
• ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology): Annual Meeting
• VSS (Vision Science Society): Annual meeting, since 2001
• ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception).
• SIAM Conference on Imaging Science: 2004 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012
• SFN (Society for Neuroscience): Annual Meeting
• NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems)
• CNS (Computational NeuroScience) Meeting: 1995 / 1996 / 1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011
• CoSyNe Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• SIGGRAPH (ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics): 1997 / 1998 / 1999 / 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003 / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011
• Asilomar Annual Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Workshops on image statistics, computational neuroscience, statistical signal processing...

• Natural Scenes:
  • NIPS-96
  • CNS-96
  • Natural scene statistics: JiminyPeak-97, Banbury-00
  • NIPS-98
  • UMinnesota-02
  • SmithKettlewell-03
  • Gordon research conferences: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
  • Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception (May 2008)
• Computational Neuroscience:
  
  • Neural information and coding (NIC) workshops [predecessor of Cosyne]: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
  • MBI workshops on System Level Modeling (11/02), Neural Coding (2/03), Functional Analysis of Nervous Systems (2/03)
    
  • AIM workshop on Inference and Prediction in Neocortical Circuits (9/03)
    
  • MSRI workshop on Mathematical Neuroscience (3/04)
    
  • Understanding the Brain, at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Jul-Oct, 2004).
  • Modeling the Brain's Labyrinth (Sep 2006)
  • NeuroMath 2006
• Mathematical Imaging:
  
  • IPAM Workshop in Multiscale Geometry in Image Processing (9/04)
  • MSRI Workshops in Mathematical, Computational and Statistical aspects of Image Analysis: Introductory (1/05), Neurobiology (2/05), Learning & Inference (2/05), Visual Recognition (3/05)
  • Banff Workshop in Multimedia and Mathematics.
  • SCTV (Statistical and Computational Theories of Vision) 1999 / 2001 / 2003
• ICA (Independent Component Analysis & Blind Signal Separation) 2000 / 2001 / 2002 / 2003
• Snowbird Machine Learning Workshop
• Bayes-2001 at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
• Bayes Cognition, 2006 Paris, Jan 16-18, 2006.
• Perception of Object Color and Material Properties in Complex Scenes (10/03)
• IPMAS-99 (Image Processing, Multiresolution Analysis, and Statistics)
• RVS-95 (Representation of Visual Scenes)

More thorough listings of vision conferences may be found at the Vision Science and CMU computer vision sites.

Courses

• Computational Neuroscience: Vision A 2-week course held every other summer since 1987 at Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Next offering: summer 2004.
• Methods in Computational Neuroscience: Annual summer course at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA.
• Methods and Models in Neurophysics A NATO Advanced Study Institute.
• Neuroengineering workshop at Telluride, CO.
• Advanced course on Computational Neuroscience: Held every summer since 1999.