USB3 Vision: camera standard interface for usb 3.0 ports
From AIA Vision Online [Link]: USB3 Vision –High Bandwidth Yet Simple Connectivity The USB3 Vision interface is based on the standard USB 3.0 interface and uses USB 3.0 ports that will soon be standard on most PCs (with Windows 7 service pack and Windows 8 native support expected soon). Components from different manufacturers will easily […]
Technical and Scientific Writing
From [Link] by Ken Hanson: Technical writing The Mayfield Handbook of Technical and Scientific Writing highly recommened; complete guide to technical writing from MIT authors, L. C. Perelman, J. Paradis, and E. Barrett; concise explanation of all aspects of technical writing; available in printed form, but perhaps most useful is this free online hypertext version […]
BibTeX overview
From [Link] by Ken Hanson: BibTeX overview BibTeX style filesBibTeX provides formatted reference lists for LaTeX documents. The format of the reference list is determined by a bibliography style file with the extension bst, which typically is specified by the intended publisher of the document.A hugh advantage of BibTeX is that the same database of references […]
SENSIAC: dataset for Automatic Target Recognition in infrared imagery
From the website of SENSIAC: The ATR (Automated Target Recognition) Algorithm Development Image Database package contains a large collection of visible and MWIR (mid-wave infrared) imagery collected by the US Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) intended to support the ATR algorithm development community. This database provides a broad set of infrared and visible […]
Acreditaciones para profesorado de la ACAP 2013 (of interest only for researchers of Madrid, Spain)
Las últimas noticias sobre el proceso de acreditación de profesorado universitario de Madrid, gestionado por la ACAP, para el 2013 no son muy buenas: la convocatoria del 2013 se ha aplazado a final de año y no está asegurado que finalmente se celebre. Además, se va reformar todo el sistema de baremación, lo que abre […]
Software for managing BibTeX files
From the LyX Documentation [Link]: To administrate BibTeX-database files you need an editor, or more comfortable, a so called BibTeX-manager. Here are some links to BibTeX-managers: BibEdt: Open source minimal BibTeX editor for Windows. BibTexMng: BibTeX editor for Windows, commercial, test version limited to 50 database entries. Bibwiki: Bibwiki is an extension for MediaWiki to […]
Management of bibliographic references with RefWorks (partially in Spanish)
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool — is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. This is private service that needs a subscription. UPM has an agreement to use this resource inside the UPM network (i.e., the […]
Tutorial de bases de datos documentales / bibliográficas (in Spanish)
[Link] al documento. Extracto de la introducción: El objetivo de este capítulo es presentar las características generales de las bases de datos bibliográficas y ofrecer algunas informaciones básicas para un uso más eficaz de las mismas. Bajo la denominación genérica de bases de datos documentales se engloban diferentes modelos que pueden diferenciarse tanto en el […]
Multiple object tracking presentation
This presentation describes an ICIP work about visual multiple object tracking with especial emphasis to object interactions. [Link] Related publication: del-Blanco, C.R.; Jaureguizar, F.; Garcia, N., “Visual tracking of multiple interacting objects through Rao-Blackwellized Data Association Particle Filtering,” Image Processing (ICIP), 2010 17th IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.821,824, 26-29 Sept. 2010.doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5653411
Job offer in Queen Mary university
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant for contributing to the EU FP7 IAPP project CENTAUR ‘Crowded environments monitoring for activity understanding and recognition’. A relevant background in computer vision or multimedia signal processing is essential, with further expertise working with machine learning and/or pattern recognition highly desirable. Applicants must also have excellent technical, programming, communication and team working […]