Useful links

Research Database

IEEE Explore

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Academy Publisher

SpringerOpen

IntechOpen

CiteSeerX

Matlab/Math URL:

• mathworks
• mathtools
• Netlib
• Numerical Recipes: Numerical Recipes (NR) books
• MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
• Scilab : http://www.scilab.org/
• Octave : http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
• Image processing tool for scilab [SIP] : http://siptoolbox.sourceforge.net/
• Python: http://www.python.org/
• NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/
• SciPy: http://www.scipy.org/

Image/Video Processing

VcDemo : Image & Video Compression Learning Tool

Data Compression

Compression Links

Multimedia Wiki

File Format: Wotsit’s Format: The Programmer’s Source

Image Processing and Video Quality Evaluation

(1) Image denoising / Noise Reduction

(a) Bilateral Filtering

(i) A Gentle Introduction to Bilateral Filtering and its Application

http://people.csail.mit.edu/sparis/bf_course/

(b) Non-Local means Filtering

(i) Reference:

(ii) Software:

(c) SURE-LET

http://bigwww.epfl.ch/demo/suredenoising/index.html

(d) sparse 3D transform-domain collaborative filtering

(i) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~foi/GCF-BM3D/

(e) Probabilistic Patch-Based filter

(i) http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~deledall/ppb.php

(f) Active Random Fields

(i) http://stat.fsu.edu/~abarbu/ARF/index.html

(g) Fundamental Limits of Image Denoising

(i) http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~priyam/bounds/

(h) Recent trends in Denoising Tutorial

(i) http://www.stanford.edu/~slansel/tutorial/publications.htm

(i) Kernel based Semiparametric Regularization

(i) http://users.uoa.gr/~ldalla/pantelis/kernels.html

(3) Image/Video Scaling

(a) Seam Carving:

(i) Image: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/seam-carve.asp

(ii) Video: http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/index.html

(4) Face Detection

(a) Survey: http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/mhyang/face-detection-survey.html

(5) Computational Photography

(a) Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_photography

(b) http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cyy/courses/comphoto/11fall/lectures/

(6) Video Quality

(a) ITS video quality research: http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/n3/video/

(b) VQEG: www.vqeg.org

(c) MOVIE: http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/Quality/movie.html

(d) Tutorial: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com09/docs/tutorial_opavc.pdf

(e) Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics http://www.vpqm.org/

(f) Reference paper: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing,

Vol.3, Issue.2, special issue on Visual Media Quality Assessment.

(g) Sharpness/Blur metric: http://ivulab.asu.edu/metadot/index.pl?iid=2480&isa=Category

(h) Video coding distortion

(i) A survey of hybrid MC/DPCM/DCT video coding distortions

Image Codec

(1) Codec and pixel definition: http://www.fourcc.org/

(2) JPEG Reference Software: Independent JPEG Group http://www.ijg.org/

(3) JPEG LS

(a) Reference paper: IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 8, Aug. 2000,

(b) Reference Software: http://www.codeplex.com/CharLS

(4) HD-Photo/ JPEG XR

(a) HD-Photo

(i) Reference software and spec (HD photo):

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphoto.mspx

(ii) Reference: http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~ipollak/hdphoto.html

(b) JPEG XR

(i) Reference software FCD

(5) JPEG 2000 Reference Software:

(a) Jasper http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper/

(b) Kakadu http://www.kakadusoftware.com/downloads.html

(c) Reference paper: Signal Processing: Image Communication Volume: 17, no.1,

Year: Jan. 2002

(6) SPIHT:

(a) RPI: http://www.cipr.rpi.edu/research/SPIHT/

(b) QccPack: http://qccpack.sourceforge.net/

Video Codec

(1) H.26x resources

http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/video-site/

(2) MPEG resources

(a) http://www.mpeg.org

(b) http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/working_documents.htm

(c) http://www.m4if.org/

(d) http://www.avc-alliance.org/

(3) MPEG1 standard

http://neuron2.net/library/library.html

(4) MPEG-2

(a) Standard : http://neuron2.net/library/library.html

(b) Reference Software : http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/research/mpeg/

(c) ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg2/software/

(5) MPEG-4 Reference Software

(a) MPEG4IP: http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/

(b) Microsoft:

http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~cwlin/courses/vsp/notes/microsoft-fpdam1-1.0-000703.zip

(c) MoMuSys:

http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~cwlin/courses/vsp/notes/MoMuSys-FPDAM1-1.0-000720.tar.gz

(d) OpenDivx. http://www.projectmayo.com/

(6) H.264/AVC

(a) Standard:

(i) http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/draft_standard/

(ii) http://ip.hhi.de/imagecom_G1/assets/pdfs/JVT-G050.pdf

(b) JVT-Site : http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/

(c) Reference paper: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volume: 13, Issue: 7, Year: July 2003,

Special issue on the H.264/AVC video coding standard

(d) Tutorial: http://www.vcodex.com/h264.html

(e) Video coding using H.264 MPEG-4 AVC compression standard [pdf]

(f) Reference Software http://bs.hhi.de/~suehring/tml/

(g) H.264 Stream analyzer: http://h264visa.daydayup.info/

(h) x.264: http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html

(7) H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC)

(a) Reference paper: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volume: 17, Issue: 9, Year: September 2007, Special issue on the Scalable Video Coding

(b) SVC JSVM0: http://ip.hhi.de/imagecom_G1/savce/index.htm

(c) SVC JSVM 12 JVT-Y202:

http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2007_10_Shenzhen/JVT-Y202.zip

(d) SVC JSVM_9_16 Reference software JVT-AC203:

http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2008_10_Busan/JVT-AC203.zip

software manual

http://lontra.org/pub/video/jsvm/current/jsvm/SoftwareManual.doc

(e) open SVC decoder: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensvcdecoder/

(f) Scalable video sequence ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/svc/testsequences

(8) H.264 Multiview Video Coding (MVC)

(a) Reference paper: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volume: 17, Issue: 11, Year: November 2007, Special issue on the Multiview Video Coding

(b) Reference tutorial:

(i) IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Nov. 2007

(ii) "The Emerging MVC Standard for 3D Video Services", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 786015

(c) MVC JMVM8 document JVT-AA208:

http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2008_04_Geneva/JVT-AA208.zip

(d) MVC JMVC6 Reference software JVT-AE207:

http://wftp3.itu.int/av-arch/jvt-site/2009_06_London/JVT-AE207.zip

(e) Multiview video sequences at MERL: ftp://ftp.merl.com/pub/avetro/mvc-testseq

(16) GPGPU

(a) GPGPU.org: http://gpgpu.org/

(b) Reference paper: Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 96, no. 5, May 2008,

Special issue on Cutting-Edge Computing: Using New Commodity Architectures

Image and Video System and Transmission

(1) DTV

(a) ATSC/DVB/ISDB Reference paper: Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 94, no. 1, January 2006, Special issue on Global Digital Television: Technology and Emerging Services

Image and Video Analysis Tools

(1) YUV pixel value comparison: YUVdevil

(2) YUV player:

(a) jvt-yuv viewer: http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/software_tools/

(b) http://www.sunrayimage.com/yuvplayer.html

(c) PYUV: http://dsplab.diei.unipg.it/pyuv_raw_video_sequence_player

(3) Media player: VideoLAN VLC media player: http://www.videolan.org/

(4) Matlab YUV tool: http://sprljan.com/nikola/matlab/yuv.html

(5) ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/

(6) XnView: http://www.xnview.com/