Vision literature is distributed widely across the campus being found in the Reid, FIZ and BIOL libraries. Within the FIZ library the literature is also physically distributed widely. I hope this guide will help you. Please let me know of any omissions or mistakes.
Books on vision can be found in FIZ under numbers
In the Reid
In BIOL
Probably the first journals to target in a literature search (from a computer vision point of view) are IJCV, PAMI, Image and Vision Computing and CVGIP. However, with the exception of PAMI and CVGIP, these journals are quite recent, earlier papers tend to be spread across a wide range of journals complicating any search.
The Computer Science Department has some of these journals and a number of conference proceedings in its own library.
JOSA-A (optics and imaging science) should not be confused with JOSA-B (optical physics). Some very important papers have appeared in JOSA. However, the papers of interest can be dispersed amongst a lot of other papers that are not particularly relevant to computer vision.
Note that some journals undergo slight name changes and subject splits, eg. CVGIP. This can cause confusion when tracking down old references.
Biological Cybernetics and Vision Research, found on the top floor of the BIOL library, are primarily concerned with human and animal vision. However, some of these papers involve computer simulation and/or computational models and can be very interesting. Some papers on human and animal vision have been very influential on computer vision (usually rather belatedly). Unfortunately subscription to Biological Cybernetics stopped in 1988.
The books on vision in the Reid are found in the north east corner of the third floor. Here one will find books on the psychology of vision, phychophysical work on vision, colour perception, motion, and even a couple of books on computer vision that are probably better placed in FIZ.
Marr, David 1982. ``Vision''.
Freeman, New York. REID 152.1402854 1982 VIS
Published by his students after his early death from lukemia. This is
one of the first books written on the subject of computational models
of human vision. It is clearly written and makes very interesting
reading. Marr's ideas have been very influential in computer vision.
Ballard, D.H. and Brown, C.M. 1982. ``Computer Vision''.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. FIZ 621.380414 1982 COM
One of the first major compilations of computer vision techniques.
Just about everything is described, but generally in not as much
detail as one would like.
Gonzalez, R.C. and Woods, R.E. 1992. ``Digital Image Processing''.
Addison-Wesley, Mass. FIZ 621.367 1987 DIG
A good book on computer vision. It concentrates on image processing
and computer vision rather than on computational models of human
vision. Earlier editions of this book appeared under the authors
Gonzalez and Wintz.
Caelli, T. 1981. ``Visual Perception: Theory and Practice''.
Pergamon Press, Oxford. REID 152.14 1981 CAE
Computational models of human vision.
Lim, J.S. 1990. ``Two Dimensional Signal and Image Processing''.
Prentice Hall. FIZ 621.3822 1990 TWO
A very good book on signal processing. It pays particular attention
to situations where 2D processing is not a simple extension of 1D
processing.
Moravec, H. P. 1981. ``Robot rover visual navigation''.
UMI Research Press, FIZ 629.89 1981 MOR.
This is Moravec's thesis on the Stanford Cart, one of the earliest
mobile robots, covering work he did during the late 70's. Despite
being a thesis it is very easy to read. Anyone doing vision research
should read it. He describes a number of techniques which today
would go under the headings; corner detection, stereo, active vision,
motion analysis, world modeling, and path planing. It is very
sobering to see how little progress has been made since then.
Nevatia, R. 1982. ``Machine Perception''.
Prentice Hall. FIZ 006.4 1982 MAC
A short, easily read book that provides a good overview of techniques.
Horn, B.K.P. 1986. ``Robot Vision''
MIT Press. FIZ 629.892 1986 ROB
A strongly theoretical book with particular emphasis on shape from
shading.
Landy, M.S. and Movshon, J.A. 1991.``Computational Models of Visual
Processing''.
MIT Press. BIOL 599.01823 1991 COM.
This is a well edited collection of very interesting papers from some
of the leading researchers in this area.
The FIZ library has a number of databases available, they are very easy to use. The ones of most interest are probably:
Within the Computer Science Department the RobVis group has a directory /proj/robvis/bibliography which contains a number of database files along with symbolic links to a number of people's private databases. A few `greps' on keywords or authors that you think are relevant will probably turn up a number of useful papers.
On the network the two main news groups to watch are:
Also of interest to some may be
Carnegie Mellon University has a superb computer vision home page at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/txtvision.html
This would have to be the place to start for any search on the Internet. It has links to a huge array of useful sources and to other research groups around the world - even to a group in Western Australia!
Also of interest is the ECVNet link.
http://afrodite.lira.dist.unige.it
This document was prepared by Peter Kovesi
June 1992
Updated October 1994
Updated January 1997