Computer Vision Bibliography

The mid-June update includes several conferences from May. Depending on the timing of the CVPR (and workshop papers) posting on the IEEE web site those papers will be included in several weeks. Some of the timing depends on my travel schedule over the next month or so.

The bibliography has been updated with the usual monthly journal articles. Additionally Microsoft Research has signed on as a sponsor. This sponsorship will help maintain the completeness and quality of the bibliography.

ICCV 2009 papers have been added to the Bibliography. As of May 15 there are still some papers that are not listed in the IEEE site with IEEE doi entries. These are included with the correct page numbers and with online links to many of them.

With uptick in 3-D movies (some good, some bad, just like 2-D movies), I looked at my stereo (image) collection once again. Also, I finally acquired a reasonably good condition stereopticon to view my collection. Rather than paying $4.00 for antique views, I have produced a number of cards for the viewer. These include buildings and scenery.

One major area of pattern recognition has been the analysis of checks. The initial coding was for bank information, but now pattern recognition has migrated to ATMs. Deposit a stack of checks and the ATM tries to read the amount and generate your deposit slip. This works for checks that have normal printed amounts, but has consistently failed for check with the fancy encoding of the amount (for these the user types the correct amount given an image of the check). Even better you can deposit a stack of random bills, but the machines still only issue $20 bills (I know there are other combinations, such as only $100, or a $20 and a $5, but few options of arbitrary amounts for US banks since the money is all the same size).

The IEEE updated its web site for conferences and journals (ieeexplore.ieee.org). While many of the changes are minor there are two major changes that affect my links to journals, conferences, and papers. First they changed some keyword references — they didn’t change them much, but in a case-sensitive environment little changes matter. Second the summary listings have more access to the abstracts (which can be good), but fewer items per page (which makes it more readable, but harder to page through a conference). Of course, they designer of the new site will point out a lot of other changes which do not really matter to many users. Most things should work now, but it is not practical  to test every ieeexplore reference.

ICIP 2009 papers have been added. The IEEE listing for ICCV is not yet available so those papers, and the associated workshops are not available.

The update this week includes the usual monthly update for the major journals along with another round of Patents. Patents are not completely covered because of the nature of the basic indexing — there is no clean way to track only relevant patents.

But for something really different try Bees learn human faces.

The IEEE Computer Society flagship magazine — Computer has a special issue on Biometrics for February 2010. This issue is not yet indexed on the bibliography, but will be in a few weeks when the links are available from the IEEE.

The first Bibliography update of the new year is the usual collection of journals. Nothing really special. The total entries now exceed 106,000 and we are approaching 16 total years of internet service.