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This is a annotated bibliography (note, bibliography is an English word, not
a word in
one of the related languages where the similar word means the same
as the English
word Library -- they are different words) of computer vision papers
accumulated over a number of years. Papers are grouped
into chapters and sections by general topic using some obscure
classification scheme. Annotations have been added at various times,
but are not complete. Within each section, papers are generally arranged
with the oldest journal papers first then the conference papers, but
conference papers related to specific journal papers are often
grouped with the journal paper. When you reach some entry, look above
and below it for other possibly more relevant references. Prolific
authors often get grouped in a separate section. This is due more to
numbers than importance, though large numbers of papers by an author is
usually an indication of importance.
The whole thing is generated by a Lisp program from a set of
input files. The programs also convert from a variety of formats
for new entries. I chose this method (a complete, fixed set of links)
over the keyword search method because for research purposes you
are not always looking for something specific and want to see
other related items.
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There are two simple search techniques for those who
prefer to type rather than merely click on entries. The first one is
fairly simple, you choose the category and the words to look for.
The second one searches by multiple categories.
Additionally, you can use a web search, currently the default is Google,
-- this should usually work, but
updates take time so the files shown
may not always correspond to the current version.
Go to the Search Page. After some questions and a little work this bibliography is now
available on the
Computer Science Bibliographies. That version allows searching, but does
not contain the annotations and context for entries, but does have a link
to the full bibliograpy. (There are brief periods when these 2 are not exactly
in sync -- usually on Thursdays -- we try to keep those times to a minimum.
The update schedule for the Computer Science Bibliographies is used to control
the update schedule of the full version.
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There is only one really frequently asked/answered question, but several
more are included here:
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For a single section, I suggest a combination of a Book chapter
and an online reference using the following components
Author: Keith Price
Book Title: Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography
If a single section, use the number and title from the
contents page: Section a.b.c aaaa bbbb cccc
URL: http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contentsnnnnnnnnn.html
Or: http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contentsnnnnnnnnn.html
Where nnnnnnnnn is the file name in the URL, for the main section contents
rather than any sub-section, which is a less stable reference.
Or the top level for the entire bibliography: http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contents.html
Or the mirror: http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contents.html
Date: October 2007 (Or whenever you last check it) -- date is important
if the URL changes or in case the section number changes.)
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At one time (i.e. late in the last millennium) journals prided themselves on
a simple reasonable arrangement of at least the table of contents of their
journals. In this new century they have fallen for the "hide everything useful
behind endless links to unnecessarily fancy systems" syndrome. This means
a lot of older references break, and a lot of newer references become
difficult to track. I have made an attempt to keep pace with these changes,
but the publishers seem bent on hiding most useful information from the
public.
Historical scientific literature is only on paper. While there may be
thousands of papers available online, much of the archival
material is only available on paper (or microfilm).
Some journals have a part or all
of their table of contents, abstracts, or text available online,
either free or as a part of the subscription, and may have archives of
older articles, so follow the journal pointers to see.
Many of these have arranged their collection
in a meaningful manner and I have included pointers to the publically
available abstracts of the articles, some journals have less reliable
arrangements for access to abstracts and those are usually not included.
But, more information may be available through the journal web site.
The IEEE site has more than just IEEE journals and conferences
and with the library subscription provides access to many papers.
But it also randomally changes what the DOI reference points to -- the abstract
or the paper. When it is to the abstract, links work for everyone.
When it is the paper, you get the login message from IEEE.
Buy this book:
For a number of books (usually they are collections of papers) and some
conferences there are links to purchase the book through Amazon. You can often
find used copies of these books on that site.
In Association with:
Some authors have made papers directly available online and pointers to
these are given when known. But, as with the entire World Wide Web entropy is
at work and pointers slowly decay and may not
point to the the paper any more. The decay rate of WWW pointers
is somewhat faster than that of cheap high-acid content paper left
outside in the rain.
Research groups often have large collections of reports available, so an
alternative is to track down information through the pointers to
the person or research group. A few have scanned early reports and make these
available, but there should be no expectation of finding a Postscript version
of a paper that was written a decade before the invention of Postscript.
The best source for an actual copy of a journal paper is a good local
university library, next is from the author directly (follow the links
to see if the author has a web link), then from the research group where the
work was performed (or where the author now works), then from
the publisher (especially a book or entire proceedings). The publisher,
unless you are a member of the society or have access through a good
university library, generally wants to be paid for a copy since it does cost
them money to provide this service.
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You got a page reference from the result of a search,
but the item referenced is no longer there.
The page may not be correct for 2 reasons:
1: Page names in the bibliography are computed at each update and a few
may change so the old names from old searches or cached names from a
search engine may take you to the wrong page.
2: The entry has moved to a more appropriate section of the bibliography.
All the data is still here, it just has a different URL.
As it is not always possible to automatically predict the
new page reference you can go to the top level contentes page
page and find the appropriate section in the
Vision Bibliographypage.
Or use the indexing options on that page to find the author, title, or keyword
reference.
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There are several ways pointers to online versions of papers appear.
Files that are .ps, .ps.gz or .ps.Z are Postscript and linked with
"Postscript Version." Files that are .pdf say "PDF Version." References
to .html and .htm say "HTML Source." There are now links to the IEEExplore
site, which leads to full versions if your library has paid for it, or you
can pay for the paper, these are given by "IEEE Reference." Others are
noted with "WWW reference" which can mean a link to
almost anything. Usually the pointers
to journal copies goes to the abstract (from here you can usually get to the
full paper if it is available for free, or information on how to purchase
it).
Note that the IEEE changed the reference method on their web site
so old links are not always correct, the pointers go to the
top level reference.
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If you find a paper reference and want to find the author, there are several
methods. Some papers (or abstracts if you do not have full access to publisher
sites, which is the usual case) have the author affiliation and sometimes
a recent email. Also, the author reference links to the list for the
author which starts with the last known email and home page.
The listed email address has some obvious modifications to reduce automatic
extraction. Note this email address is
only current as of when it is added. There are some that are
out of date, but this email or home page often provides an initial
starting point to find the person.
The Research Group section is arranged according to large geographic regions
(
See also Computer Vision Related Research Groups, North America -- US.
See also Computer Vision Related Research Groups, Americas -- Other than US.
See also Computer Vision Related Research Groups, Europe.
See also Computer Vision Related Research Groups, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania. ).
Or use the
Complete Listing of Research Groups. If you have
information about where a person is (or was), the research
group page often has a listing of current and (especially for universities)
former members.
The
Research Group People Listingis one way to search
for the group given the person. People are automatically sorted by
host name of their home page or email (note that emails are not
available from this page directly). Not everyone is listed.
The Computer Vision Information page at CMU had not been
maintained for several years, so those links are out of date.
The Computer Vision Researcher list assembled by
Margaret Fleck was another listing, but it also has not been kept up to date.
For these and other resources you should start at
the Computer Vision Resources Listing.
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In each entry, there is a reference to the source (call it the journal).
If you follow the link from the journal you will get to the listing of all
entries for that journal (or conference, or book). For journals these are
listed by volume. At the top of these listings there is a bold face entry,
which has an extra "*" in front of it, that links to the entry for the
actual journal, conference, or book. Follow this link and you can get
whatever information exists.
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Generally speaking, this is a bibliography (a listing of papers),
not a source of code. But all is not lost.
Some authors provide
references to available code in their papers, others provide
code on their web sites.
The extracted Code Available list is given in
the Vision Bib Code Reference Listing. This list includes pointers to papers (or other publications)
that reference code and includes some standard code repositories.
You may want a computer vision system by name (e.g. Acronym), for this
you can look under
the Vision Bib Computer Vision Systems Listing.
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This is still mostly a research area, there are few products you can by in
shrink-wrapped boxes that solve your big problems. But, there may be code
for your problem (see the previous section), or there may be some
vendor for a useful product.
The listing of vendors are spread through the bibliography, usually in the
appropriate section for the product,
but an extracted list is available at
the Vision Bib Vendor Listing.
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The author index lists people by Last name (family name) and initials.
Many papers only have this information, some have varying numbers
of initials, some have different versions of the name for one person.
In order to generally group all papers by one author under one heading
they are grouped by initial. The various forms of the name that have
been grouped into the entry are listed at the end.
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Generally speaking there are major updates (i.e. a large number of new papers)
every month, which corresponds to the publishing cycle for many of the major
journals. Additionally, conferences result in less regular large updates as
those papers are incorporated into the overall listing. Since there is some
order to the entries and this is not just a heap of unconnected titles there is
some work involved in preparing each update. These separate update cycles
result in changes roughly each week. Less than weekly would cause problems with
other links and make search results less reliable.
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This bibliography first appeared in hypertext form in March 1994.
The first version of some of the references was in
the bibliographic information
for my thesis (
See also Change Detection and Analysis in Multi-Spectral Images. ). After starting to work at USC, I
maintaied online notes and references for use in current research and papers
(that is why there are
more comments on papers dealing with segmentation and matching). As this
bibliography grew, I began to organize it into a printed document using
various indexes (this organization is reflected in the current organization).
At this time the printed version was about 200 pages, including indexes.
In March 1994, shortly after HTML appeared on the scene,
I converted these files to an
intermediate format that is still used. These files are processed by
a set of Lisp and Perl programs to generate the intertwined
hypertext for the online bibliography
you see today. The entire collection also includes scripts or Lisp code to
convert a lot of input formats into a form that is usagle, emacs mode
modifications for the specific SGML codes that I need, and scripts that do
various searches and modifications to the files.
I never released this with an announcement, I just made it
available and mentioned it to a few people. After it appeared on the
CMU vision page, access increased greatly. At this point I felt it was
important to keep everything up to date and to make sure older references
were included and thus the total size grew from around 5000 entries to
the more than 200,000 of today.
Current references are formatted using more lisp programs and occasional
perl scripts (the search mechanism was added in an effort to learn perl).
Conference listings are added soon after they are available.
Periodically, large sections are subdivided and rearranged so that transfer
times can be reasonable.
At some point, I decided to try formatting the online text versions of
the Rosenfeld bibliographies (1984-1994). This resulted in more lisp code
that tries to guess the content of the entry and works for most paper
references.
After my retirement, USC continued to provide computing and other support,
but to transistion to the day when this is not available and when the server
in the IRIS group has problems I created an official mirror:
http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contents.html.
This former mirror site is now the official siet since updates to the system at
USC made continued updates difficult.
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This database is intended to be used. Individual references
cannot be covered by any copyright and users are expected
to copy information from
individual references for their own use. The overall collection and
arrangement of the data can be and is protected by
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Given the current network performance, why would you want it?
The organization is highly interleaved was not amenable to
any file system other than Unix. (Windows slowly improved and manages to
deal with most of the issues -- though it has some real limits.)
So, generally I make it available on the web, but see no reason to
make it available in any other way.
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Since about 2003 the maintainer of the bibliography has been enjoying
retirement from full time
computer vision research. This means a reduction in the time and
resources that are available to maintain the bibliography.
For a while, the main support will be continued through
computer resources provided
by the USC Computer Vision Group and some financial support from the
IEEE TC-PAMI. You can assist in the propmt inclusion of various journals and conferences
by providing
Support to the Bibliography.
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The entries are indexed by several categories.
AUTHOR (who wrote the entry, with entries
sorted by LastName, I.I.) (this may not be unique),
also by AUTHOR and YEAR (suggested by someone who
needed to generate a listing for an annual faculty review),
JOURNALS (where it appeared -- includes conferences and
other collections, also includes book publishers),
general KEYWORDS (to individual papers or
to sections which are noted in bold face with the level indicated
(H1) after the title), TITLE, and a KWIC index
using almost all words in titles (1 and 2 letter words, the, for, and,
from, into, with, than, that, image, using, algorithm, analysis,
and vision are ommitted) where hypenated
words are counted as one word.
Each index has links to the full reference using the title. Sometimes
the reference comes up with the html link pointing at the very top of
the screen, the author and title are usually above this point.
The bottom of the Table of Contents has direct links to the various
index files.
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Note: Some file names for the index are not possible, e.g.
Windows does not allow files names such as con.ext.
So, while the obvious file to index Conte is not possible, it is dealt with.
The
AUTHOR, JOURNAL, KEYWORDand the
KWICindexes are accessed
in two steps (primarily to reduce file sizes). The intro page
shows the indexed name (journal or word) and the number of entries. The name
is linked to the listing of all the appropriate titles.
Within the bibliography itself, the AUTHOR (or JOURNAL or KEYWORD)
entry links directly to the detailed listing for that entry.
The TITLE and KWIC indexes are reachable only through the introductory
pages using the letter links at the bottom of the main Bibliography page.
You can also use a direct jump to the Author, KWIC, and Journal indices
through
the direct index link.
The
AUTHORindex has links to the titles for each author, sorted by
Last name, Initials. Within each author the sorting is alphabetical by
TITLE.
Due to the grouping of similar papers most papers where there are
multiple versions with the same title only
appear once for a given author. The indexing by Last-name, Initials
usually works, but there are many cases where different authors have
the same last name and initials. These end up in the same author
index entry. Full names are available for some references and these are
used to create separate entries in the initial author index.
Author names that include characters with diacritical marks usually
collapse into the single character without the mark. This is an
effort to include more papers by one author in a single
index listing. The main entry still
appears with the name in the form that it came in (maybe with or without
diacritical marks).
This is not a complete solution since the German characters with an
umlaut generally become 2 characters (e.g. ü should be ue rather than u).
But not all sources of the original data had the umlaut or
the correct conversion. Most author index references with an umlaut have a link
(labeled "Maybe also") to the possible alternate spelling.
The
Author-by-Yearindex lists
the author's titles ordered by year,
and include the year. The year 1900 really means that the year was
not derivable from the entry, while there are a few references for 1908, the
1890s and 1850s, there are none for 1900 itself.
The link to the full information (title, web site, purchase information)
for the journal, conference, or book
should be near the beginning of the
JOURNALindex list for that item.
This link is in bold face with an extra * in front.
Journals are separated by Volume number.
Technical report series and other collections are also referenced this way.
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Follow links to the relevant word and find all papers that include that word
in the title. From there you can go to the paper entry.
A number of words are omitted from the KWIC index -- some are the obvious:
2 letter words, and, the, for, that, from, with, than, their, into; some
are the ones specific to the topic: image, vision, using, computer, based,
algorithm, analysis.
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Often the keyword index entry points to a subsection rather
than any individual paper. In this case, the keyword applies to
all papers in that section.
The keyword also points to the chapter contents, indicated by (H) at
the end of the entry, when it appears in a given chapter.
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Update dates: Most entries include a linked date (given as YYMM).
For most,
this corresponds in some way to the derived date of the entry. For more
recent entries it will be the date the entry was added or updated. The update
index can be used to find articles added in a given month.
If no month is derivable it is given as 00. No year is also 00. For
Sections, the date corresponds to when it was added to the file.
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The bibliography automatically generates the Bibtex entries. Because of the
nature of the input files, generating the correct Bibtex categories
(inproceedings, inbook, etc.) is not
always possible so that everything defaults to article. Over time
some things may be fixed, but the entries will never be directly
exportable with no editing to a bib file for use by bibtex.
These are indicated by the BibRef pointer in the bibliography (the BibRef
pointer applies to the immediately preceeding reference, due to the nature
of the computation, the placement is not always ideal).
Most of the journal and conference detailed references generate the correct
@string definitions for bibtex --
See also Full Names of Journal Abbreviations. But the journal name in the BibRef
entry (for inproceedings or article) is always quoted so some editing
may be required.
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Some entries have cross references to other papers (by title -- indicated
by something like See also --something--.) or
include pointers to an online source of the paper
(if it is known to be available).
The online paper links also include a large number of
journal abstracts (most of the time, the abstracts are free to everyone,
but the full article requires either individual payment, paying for
on-line access, or using your university access).
The pointers to online sources are taken directly as given to me. The location
or existence of the source can change at any time but updates only occur if
the author informs me.
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