Univ. of Illinois CEE598: Visual Sensing for Civil Infrastructure Engineering and Management

Useful Tutorials and Tools for the Visual Sensing Class

For this course, we will be using MATLAB to implement various computer vision algorithms for in-class assignments and take-home machine problems. The drivers for the instruments were all within standard capabilities of MathWorks products, namely MATLAB, Image Processing Toolbox, and Computer Vision Toolbox. MathWorks will provide guidance and support with the specific instruments used in this course as needed. This page provides links to various resources used in the course.

MATLAB Tutorials

An introduction to MATLAB (Hany Farid and Eoro Simoncelli): http://www.maths.dundee.ac.uk/ftp/na-reports/MatlabNotes.pdf
MATLAB tutorial:http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~farid/tutorials/matlab.intro.html
The process of starting with very general MATLAB code: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder/description2.html
Writing fast MATLAB codes: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/5685
A great introduction to using MATLAB: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dyer/cs534-spring09/slides/MATLAB-tutorial.pdf
Online Codes and Libraries: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~silvio/teaching/EECS442_2010/lectures/code_and_libraries.pdf
Q is an interface to Matlab for manipulating and analyzing digital images: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~farid/Hany_Farid/Tutorials/Entries/2011/5/30_The_Q_software.html

Useful MATLAB Tools

Conversion from MATLAB to C: http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder/index.html
CUDA/GPU programming in MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-gpu.html
GPU arrays in MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2012b/distcomp/using-gpuarray.html
Recommended Kinect interface for MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32318
Pointcloud Viewer for MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36803-simulink-for-pcv-point-cloud-viewer
Pointcloud Viewer2 for MATLAB: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32318-simulink-for-natural-interaction-device-nid
MATLAB Mobile: http://www.mathworks.com/mobile/

MathWorks support for MATLAB

MATLAB Forum Resources: http://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/group/8ca81335-59b5-4eff-bc7e-fca259e04682/html/MATLAB_Forum_Resources.html
MathWorks Technical Support services: http://www.mathworks.com/support/
Free Upcoming Mathworks Webinars: http://www.mathworks.com/company/events/webinars/upcoming.html

MATLAB Sources You Really Want to Know

Peter Kovesi's Functions for Computer Vision: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~pk/Research/MatlabFns/
MATLAB Functions for Multiple View Geometry: http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/hzbook/code/
More Codes for MATLAB: http://www.computervisiononline.com/software
Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB (Gonzales, Woods, Eddins): http://imageprocessingplace.com/DIPUM-2E/dipum2e_main_page.htm

Computer Vision and Image Processing Related Materials

Image and Video Processing Application: http://www.mathworks.com/image-video-processing/
Computer Vision System Toolbox: http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/

Stereo Vision highlights: http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/description4.html
Demos available online: http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/demos.html?show=demo
Recorded webinars that are also useful: http://www.mathworks.com/products/computer-vision/demos.html?show=recorded/

Image Acquisition Toolbox: http://www.mathworks.com/products/imaq/

Supported Hardware (camera standards, framegrabbers, manufacturers): http://www.mathworks.com/products/imaq/supportedio.html

Simulink for Natural Interaction Device (also a MATLAB connectivity version): http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32318-simulink-for-natural-interaction-device-nid http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/30242-kinect-matlab