Cvdirectory

Purpose

Our purpose is to edit, create, update and improve entries pertaining to notable personalities in the Computer Vision community. In general, we are not focused on technical content, except to the extent that citations or personal references are being added or corrected.

It is our hope that once pages are created for those authors and researchers who should have, but do not currently have, pages, others (including the named individuals, if still alive) will take part in extending those pages.

Once we have made sufficient progress on our authors list, we hope to devote greater time to improving the entries on each list.

Todo list

Basic Todo list:

• Authors of important books on Computer Vision
• Authors of important papers in Computer Vision

Our minimal goal is to have entries with reference to books and appropriate publications (those significant enough to have had a meaningful impact on the Computer Vision community) for each researcher. Thereafter, we hope to proceed to improve those entries which have been created.

Short List

This is a list of book authors on the todo list (based on topic and Amazon reviews. Of course this list is in no sense complete, but is our starting point for this project. We will of course add new names as time progresses. (Also, some names may be eliminated for multiple author books, based on the Wikipedia notability guidelines).

• Richard Hartley (Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision)
  • Existing page page is a different person, needs disambiguation page.
• Andrew Zisserman (Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision)
  • Has page already, probably no contribution needed
• Gary Bradski (Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library)
  • No page, xref opencv
• Adrian Kaehler (Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library)
  • No page, xref opencv
• Emanuele Trucco (Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision)
  • No page
• Simon Prince (Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference)
  • No page
• Richard Szeliski (Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications)
  • No page
• Jan Solem (Programming Computer Vision with Python: Tools and algorithms for analyzing images)
  • No page
• Kenneth Dawson-Howe (A Practical Introduction to Computer Vision with OpenCV)
  • No page
• Linda G. Shapiro (Computer Vision)
  • No page
• George Stockman (Computer Vision)
  • No page
• Kurt Demaagd (Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See)
  • No page
• Anthony Oliver (Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See)
  • Existing page page is a different person, needs disambiguation page.
• Nathan Oostendorp (Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See)
  • Has page already, probably no contribution needed
• Katherine Scott (Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See)
  • Existing pages are different people, add to disambiguation page.
• Alessandro Verri (Introductory Techniques for 3-D Computer Vision)
  • Existing page page is a different person, needs disambiguation page.

Disambiguation

In preparing for this project, we have noted that enough of the authors of interest have names sufficiently common that disambiguation will often be necessary. In accordance with the Wikipedia guidelines (Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)) we have opted to add "(scientist)" to the name of any researcher whose name is found to be otherwise in use. (e.g. the Computer Vision researcher "Richard Hartley" is entered under the name Richard Hartley (scientist) to distinguish him from Richard Hartley, the British composer of the same name.

As a matter of policy, we will not engage in the lengthy process of attempting to change the existing article names (e.g. "Richard Hartley" to "Richard Hartley (composer)"). As this is a difficult topic to determine which individual may be a better Primary Reference, we will leave this to a later time, and hopefully constructive collaboration with others knowledgeable about the other entries affected.

Contact

If you feel that you or some other researcher should be included (based on the criteria above) please feel free to send mail to cvdirectory@hotmail.com.