opencv-demos

A continuation of opencv-tutorials to bypass some big media files submitted by mistake.

Work through some of the OpenCV tutorials and generate some documented sample code for use in demonstrations.

software

OpenCV now maintained by Itseez

https://github.com/tbl3rd/opencv.git

Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) tracker in C (Matlab interface) and links to papers

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/~stb/klt/

FERN (and BRIEF) detect and track (as in Predator) from EP Lausanne

http://cvlab.epfl.ch/software/ferns/
http://cvlabwww.epfl.ch/publications/publications/2010/OzuysalCLF10.pdf
http://cvlab.epfl.ch/research/body/surv/

Mastering OpenCV code samples

https://github.com/MasteringOpenCV/code

Oxford GPU resources

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Research/Projects/2011victor_gpu/project.html

A BackGround Subtraction library

https://code.google.com/p/bgslibrary/

CCV another Computer Vision collection in C

https://github.com/liuliu/ccv

Multigrid Methods

http://www.mgnet.org

books and papers

Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, by Richard Szeliski

http://szeliski.org/Book/ ... links to various CV labs at the bottom

Szeliski's home page

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/szeliski/

Mastering OpenCV with Practical Computer Vision Projects

http://www.packtpub.com/cool-projects-with-opencv/book

Mastering OpenCV, Chapter 4, Structure From Motion

http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/9781849517829_Chapter_04.pdf

Michael Jones (of Viola-Jones) ... and so on

http://www.merl.com/people/mjones
http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2004-043 (more Haar feature cascades)
http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2008-027 (best)

David Lowe's industrial CV page

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html

David Fleet's home page

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fleet/

The Reading People Tracker

http://www.siebel-research.de/people_tracking/reading_people_tracker/

Oxford Intelligent Surveillance

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Research/Projects/2009eric_intsurv/project.html

Predator: a learning tracker

http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html

CMU's CV software page (some dead links)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html

CMU's CV demos page (half dozen tracking demos and more dead links)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-demos.html

Test Sources

Oxford University Active Vision Research Datasets

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Research/Projects/2009bbenfold_headpose/project.html#datasets

MIT CSAIL human-segmented object and scene database (Matlab)

http://web.mit.edu/torralba/www/database.html

CAVIAR test videos

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CAVIARDATA1/

Amsterdam Library of Object Images

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~aloi/

Karlsuhe University traffic video sequences

http://i21www.ira.uka.de/image_sequences/

Surveillance Performance EValuation Initiative (SPEVI), Queen Mary University of London

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~andrea/spevi.html

Street scene from Akos Maroy

http://akos.maroy.hu/~akos/eszesp/MVI_0778.MOV

PETS 2009 Benchmark Data

http://www.cvg.rdg.ac.uk/PETS2009/a.html

tbl3rd/track YouTube videos

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4SdFexV_54L45nrZ1jg9WZzRHPJxS4Wl

Boston

http://www.sosolimited.com/ ... go meet these guys ...

... and many research papers available by following links above ...