Computer Vision Tools

Computer Vision Tools

Contents 1 Computer Vision Tutorials 2 Computer Vision Resources 3 Computer Vision Libraries 4 Image Primitive 4.1 Point Features and Their Correspondence 4.2 Line Segments and Vanishing Points 4.3 Regions and Segmentation 5 Camera Calibration 6 Robust Regression and RANSAC 7 Geometric Vision (Theory and Applications) 7.1 Multiple View Geometry (Theory) 7.2 Visual Odometry 7.3 Visual SLAM and SFM (from Timely-Ordered Image Sequences) 7.4 Reconstruction (from Unordered Image Sets) 7.5 Reconstruction (from Single Image) 7.6 Video Stabilization 8 Image Processing 9 Point Cloud Processing 10 Tracking 11 Recognition and Categorization Computer Vision Tutorials Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference, Simon Prince Computer Vision Resources CVPapers (Computer Vision Resource) It includes conference paper index, lists of open implementations and datasets. Computer Vision Online It includes software, datasets, groups, books, events, jobs on computer vision. The Computer Vision Homepage, CMU CVonline, Robert Fisher VisionBib.com (Computer Vision Information Pages), Keith Price Computer Vision Libraries OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision) OpenCV Official Document Image Watch, Microsoft: Visualizing images during debugging MSVC Korean Community, Japanese Community, Examples in O'Reilly Book BoofCV: An open-source Java library for real-time computer vision and robotics NASA Vision Workbench Peter's Functions for Computer Vision (in MATLAB), Peter Kovesi PRTools: The MATLAB Toolbox for Pattern Recognition, Delft Univ. of Tech. Image Primitive Point Features and Their Correspondence OpenCV also equips with various feature detectors and descriptors. Performance Evaluation on Local Features in OpenCV Point Features and Descriptors SIFT SIFT Demo, David Lowe OpenSIFT, Rob Hess SiftGPU, Changchang Wu SURF SURF Demo, ETHZ OpenSURF, Christopher Evans CUDA SURF, Max-Planck-Institut FAST FAST Corner Detection, Edward Rosten VLFeat SIFT, MSER, and Quick Shift in C with MATLAB interface Feature Detectors and Descriptors: The State-of-the-art and Beyond Feature Tracking (a.k.a. Optical Flow) KLT Feature Tracker, Stan Birchfield Feature Matching Fast Normalized Cross Correlation, Daniel Eaton LDAHash: Binary Descriptor for Large-scale Applications, EPFL Dense Stereo Matching LIBELAS, Andreas Geiger DAISY, EPFL Line Segments and Vanishing Points Vanishing Point Detector, ETHZ It needs Line Segment Detector (LSD) to generate input line segments (c.f. MATLAB Interface). Regions and Segmentation Superpixel, Greg Mori SLIC Superpixels, EPFL Surface Context, Derek Hoiem Camera Calibration Learn Photography Concept OpenCV also equips with calibration functions for a single and stereo camera. Perspective Camera A Flexible New Technique for Camera Calibration, Zhengyou Zhang Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab, Jean-Yves Bouguet GML Camera Calibration Toolbox: MATLAB, C++ Chessboards: ROS (8x6, 7x6), Starlino (10x7), BoofCV (7x5), Google Image Search Omnidirectional Camera OCamCalib Toolbox (Omnidirectional Camera and Calibration Toolbox), Davide Scaramuzza Robust Regression and RANSAC CVPR 2006 Workshop on 25 Years of RANSAC [broken] USAC (A Universal Framework for RANSAC), Rahul Raguram RECON (Residual Consensus), Rahul Raguram Projection-based M-estimator, Raghav Subbarao J-linkage, R. Toldo GroupSAC, Kai Ni BetaSAC, Antoine Meler Researches in Univ. of Adelaide, Tat-Jun Chin and Jin Yu RANSAC Toolbox, Marco Zuliani GML RANSAC MATLAB Toolbox, Moscow State Univ. Fast Optimal Bandwidth Estimation for Univariate KDE, Vikas Raykar Geometric Vision (Theory and Applications) Multiple View Geometry (Theory) Books and Tutorials Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision, Hartley and Zisserman: A legendary book in geometric vision Lecture Slides, Marc Pollefeys Elements of Geometric Computer Vision, Andrea Fusiello 3D Structure from 2D Motion, Tony Jebara et al. Stereo Vision, Michael Bleyer Relative Pose Estimation (mostly about 5-point algorithms for an essential matrix) The Five-point Pose Estimation Evaluation, Prateek et al.: An implementation of Nister's T-PAMI 2004 Five-point Algorithm for Essential Matrix, 1 Year Later, Nghia Ho: An implementation of Li's ICPR 2006 Calibrated Fivepoint Solver (MATLAB), Henrik Stewenius: An implementation of Stewenius's ISPRS 2006 C++ Essential Matrix Estimation, Tom Botterill Perspective-n-Point Pose Estimation (a.k.a. absolute pose estimation) EPnP (Efficient PnP), EPFL Novel Parameterization of P3P, Laurent Kneip ASPnP (Accurate and Scalable PnP), Yinqiang Zheng Triangulation Toolbox, Sunglok Choi Collections of Estimation Algorithms OpenGV (Open Geometric Vision) openMVG (Open Multiple View Geometry), Pierre Moulon libmv (A Structure from Motion Library) Minimal Problems in Computer Vision, Zuzana Kukelova A Structure and Motion Toolkit in MATLAB, Philip Torr Visual Odometry LIBVISO2 (Library for Visual Odometry), Andreas Geiger Visual Odometry for PR2 (ROS Package) Monocular Visual Odometry, Rainer Hessmer ESM SDK, INRIA Visual SLAM and SFM (from Timely-Ordered Image Sequences) IROS 2007 Workshop on Visual SLAM, Agrawal and Konolige PTAM (Parallel Tracking and Mapping), Georg Klein MonoSLAM with Inverse Depth, Andew Davison 1-Point RANSAC Inverse Depth EKF Monocular SLAM, Javier Civera ARToolKit, Philip Lamb The 3D Toolkit, Univ. Osnabruck and Jacobs Univ. Reconstruction (from Unordered Image Sets) Bundle Adjustment SBA (Sparse Bundle Adjustment), Manolis Lourakis SSBA (Simple Sparse Bundle Adjustment), Christopher Zach Bundler (used in Photo Tourism and Photosynth), Univ. of Washington (its Github) PMVS (Patch-based Multi-view Stereo Software) and CMVS (Clustering View for Multi-view Stereo), Yasutaka Furukawa VisualSFM (A Visual Structure from Motion System), Changchang Wu 3D Geometry Reconstruction for OpenStreetMap FIT3D, Issac Esteban MeshLab: An open-source editor and viewer for point clouds and polygons BlueViewer, BlueView Technologies: A point cloud viewer (in XYZ format) Reconstruction (from Single Image) Automatic Photo Pop-up, Derek Hoiem Make3D, Ashutosh Saxena Video Stabilization Deshaker, Gunnar Thalin: A VirtualDub plug-in Subspace Video Stabilization, Feng Liu: For datasets Video Stabilization with Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths, Grundmann: For datasets Image Processing Retinex Algorithm Multiscale Retinex with Color Restoration (MSRCR) C Implementation for GIMP, Fabien Pelisson Java Implementation for ImageJ, Gabriel Landini PDE Retinex, Nicolas Limare et. al. Retinex in Matlab, Brian Funt et. al. Retinex Image Processing, NASA: For datasets Color Constancy Color Constancy Background Subtraction (Change Detection) Background Subtraction, Thierry Bouwmans ChangeDetection.NET (CDNET) A Background Subtraction Library, Andrews Sobral Algorithms: SuBSENSE (OpenCV v3 and Python Interface), PBAS, ViBe Point Cloud Processing PCL (Point Cloud Library) Tracking OpenTL (A general-purpose tracking library) Recognition and Categorization Recognizing and Learning Object Categories, Li Fei-Fei et. al. Discriminatively Trained Deformable Part Models, Pedro Felzenszwalb Lane Detection Caltech Lane Detection Software, Mohamed Aly