The following links may navigate to an interesting World of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~rama/research.html

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/

http://www.ee.iisc.ernet.in/new/people/faculty/soma.biswas/Research.html

http://www.ee.iisc.ernet.in/labs/cvl/

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~elad/research/

http://www.face-rec.org/

http://datasets.visionbib.com/info-index.html

https://www.kairos.com/blog/60-facial-recognition-databases

Scientific Writing

http://www.elsevier.com/connect/writing-a-science-paper-some-dos-and-donts?sf7750009=1

http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn9789514293801/isbn9789514293801.pdf

Misc.

"You and Your Research", Rechard Hamming.

"So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!", graduate school survival guide.

"PhD Comics", An interesting Archive.

"Should I Get A PhD", A collection of Interview series on opinion on PhD.