Elisa's Academic Link List

Contents:

Professional Societies and Organizations

Pattern Recognition and Afar

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Imaging

Digital Libraries Initiative

Other Projects

Probability

Useful Academic Demos

Useful Utilities

Useful Resources

People

Professional Societies and Organizations

• IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
• IEEE - Boise Section
• SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
• Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
• IAPR - The International Association for Pattern Recognition
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• American Society for Information Science
• SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• International Society for Adaptive Behavior (i.e. in robots)
• IJDAR - The International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
• IEEE - Pattern Analysis and Machine Analysis (PAMI)
• Elsevier Science - Pattern Recognition
• Elsevier Science - Pattern Recognition Letters
• IBM Journal of Research and Development

Pattern Recognition - Theory

• IAPR Pattern Recognition Education Resources
• Pattern Recognition at U Iowa, USA
• Pattern Recognition and Image Processing group at Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Material on the web about Pattern Recognition, Technical Univ. of Delft, NL
• Pattern Recognition group, University Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Information Theory,Pattern Recognition and Neural Nets, Univ. Toronto, Canada
• Pattern Recognition at McGill University, Canada
• Pattern Recognition program at Univ. Adelaide, Australia
• Pattern Regcognition glossary Wisconsin
• Pattern Regcognition Basis of AI excerpts from a book, how to recognize characters

Pattern Recognition - Applications

• HAL's Legacy Discusses the state-of-the-art in pattern recognition and many other technologies in the context of the book & movie "2001 A Space Odyssey."
• Comparisonics Pattern Recognition used for finding similar sound files on the web.
• CVonline - a free computer vision "encyclopedia"

Imaging

• Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
• CVonline (Online Computer vision Books)

• Project Links Prob Stat Modules
• Project Links Prob Stat Concept Index - summaries of many probability concepts
• GASP: Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures DOS based probabilty software
• HyperStat Probability notes from Rice Univ.
• Probability Notes defining an assortment of topics (from CERN).
• Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics (Univ. Alabama/Huntsville)
• A Compendium of Common Probability Distributions

Signal Processing

• Reference material on Wavelets.
• Notes on Wavelets

Fuzzy Logic +

• FAQ on Fuzzy Logic
• Fuzzy Logic Tutorial
• Fuzzy Logic tutorial

Optical Character Recognition

• Document Recognition -- A technology overview
• IEEE Computer Society - International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) Tables of contents
• International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), TOC & Bibtex entries
• ICDAR Conference posters
• ICDAR 1999 (Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Bangalore India
• ICDAR 2001 (Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Seattle Washington, USA - Includes proceedings
• ICDAR 2003 (Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Edinburgh, Scotland - Conference Proceedings
• ICDAR 2009 - includes articles, for now
• 7th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems - 2006,
• 8th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems - 2008,
• ZD Net archive of white papers - search on "OCR" in white papers (used to have better content - now it's pretty cluttered)
• MARG - Medical Article Records Groundtruth lots of layout & OCR groundtruth data
• Digitisation Resources

• CEDAR (Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition), SUNY Buffalo
• Language and Media Group (LAMP) at U Maryland, College Park
• Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• CMU, Imaging Systems Lab

• CiteSeer Research Index The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
• Illinois Engineering and Science Library
• UC Berkeley The California Photos Database
• UC Berkeley Digital documents database
• UC Santa Barbara , Alexandria Digital Library for spatially indexed and graphical information
• Stanford University , Integrated "Virtual" Library
• University of Michigan Earth and Space Science Collections
• University of Michigan Making of America Collection (19th century books) -- This is really cool what is in here.
• CMU, Informedia Digital Video Library
• CMU, Historical NY Times Project
• Library of Congress , WWW Home Page
• Links to remote sensing and GIS resources

• RPI's Project Links
• Links from RPI's Project Links

• Project Links - assorted applets and instructional material for math with engineering for science applications - RPI, Troy, NY, USA
• Virtual Laboratory - assorted applets for logic circuits, truss design, diffusion, etc. - Johns Hopkins University, USA
• Coding Tutorials for MATLAB from Drexel University
• Exploring EE from Bucknell Univ (circuits & systems basics)
• Central Limit Theorem Demo

• XV -excellant image processing & manipulation shareware "XV is an interactive image manipulation program for X Windows that converts image files to and from GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PPM, X11, bitmap, Sun rasterfile, RLE, RGB, BMP, PCX, and PM formats."
• NetPBM - image type conversion library
• GifTrans Software to make a GIF file transparent
• GNU Image Manipulaiton Package freeware
• Numerical Recipes in C and Fortran (this used to have all the source code for free. Now you need to do a bit of web searching, but the code and the book are worth acquiring!
• Ghostview View PostScript files

• Online Dictionaries, Thesaurus, and Other Reference
• HTML reference guide

• C++ Tutorial

• Georgy Nagy, DocLab, RPI
• Henry S. Baird, Lehigh University, (formerly Bell Labs and Xerox PARC)
• Tin Kam Ho, Bell Labs
• Marina Thottan, Bell Labs
• Prateek Sarkar, Xerox PARC
• Gary Kopec, Xerox PARC
• David Doermann, UMD LAMP
• Tapas Kanungo
• Xiaofan Lin, HP Labs