Computer Vision Bibliography

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.

The New York Times has a travel article on visiting the Grand Canyon in the winter.  The writer hiked to the bottom (staying at Phantom Ranch) on fairly short notice (not something to always count on, though with cancellations someone probably gets in on the same day on most days). Anyone who has been down the South Kaibab trail remembers the view in the picture used in the article.

Last week for most of one afternoon I lost access to my web hosting service. I could still read email and could connect via FTP, but the site responded slowly and FTP transfers would fail. The problems seemed to be specific to the provider (other sites behaved correctly, other sites in the same city as the provider worked).  This was not caused by a failure of the service, indeed most users did not notice any problems. The general cause was a failure in one of the routers between my local DSL provider and the hosting service across the country. Which router was involved and the nature of its failure was not clear. The implication for total dependence on remote network computing (cloud or otherwise) is that you are depending on many separate parts, not just one integrated system. And any one of these parts can cause you problems. It also showed to importance of having both phone and internet customer service — I did talk to a person (with no waiting!) who, while puzzled about why he saw no issue, did research the problem.

The PBS documentary on the National Parks covered the history and development of the parks with some emphasis on the inherent conflict between the goal of access for today and preservation for tomorrow.

The most recent update includes a number of recent conferences (September is the busy month for many conferences) from Springer, and the usual list of journals.

On the conference side, the Call for Papers for CVPR 2010 has been released.

The most recent update for the bibliography involves the CVPR papers. But the IEEE website listed all the papers incorrectly — it lists CVPR papers as Workshop papers and all the workshops under CVPR.  The bibliography listing has the correct references even though the IEEE site did not.

As an added service, some keywords have a short definition at the top of the list of references. This is intended to aid in searching for useful information, or to just quickly find out what something means. Initially, I have mostly added definitions of acronyms, and have links to a form for interested users to add useful definitions for other basic keywords. To see the effect, look at the keyword index (or follow any keyword link), or see the DEM keyword link for an example.

The latest update includes most of the monthly journal updates (PAMI, IJCV, etc.). CVPR was this week, but it generally takes several weeks before the conference listing is available online with all the information. Due to some hardware issues the bibliography update on the iris site will be delayed.

While travelling there are often issues that come up in  updating the various conference announcement web sites. The bibliography generally is not updated while on travel. The USC Iris version has more controls on access and does not get updated every time that the VisionBib site gets changed. Until I return, the USC version may run behind, but that is the problem with internet security.