Links:


Robotics:

The Robotics Institute in CMU One of the famous robotics institues in the world.

http://robots.net/ robotics news digest.

Don't miss my website, www.robotdiy.com (Chinese ONLY)


Medical Image Processing:

ITK, The Insight Toolkit is an open-source software toolkit for performing registration and segmentation. Segmentation is the process of identifying and classifying data found in a digitally sampled representation. Typically the sampled representation is an image acquired from such medical instrumentation as CT or MRI scanners. Registration is the task of aligning or developing correspondences between data. For example, in the medical environment, a CT scan may be aligned with a MRI scan in order to combine the information contained in both. (from www.itk.org)

VTK, The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by thousands of researchers and developers around the world.

OpenCV, The Open Computer Vision Library is a collection of algorithms and sample code for various computer vision problems. The library is compatible with IPL and utilizes Intel Integrated Performance Primitives for better performance.

FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX®/Linux® (X11), Microsoft® Windows®, and MacOS® X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL® and its built-in GLUT emulation.


Embedded System:

http://www.linuxdevices.com


Open Source Revolution:

SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development website.

Open source Software vs. Commercial Software:

Open source
Commercial Software
Comment
OpenOffice
M$ Office
Probably, the price of MS Office is higher than your computer. OpenOffice is definitely one of the coolest open source softwares.
Notepad ++
EmEditor...
Forget the ugly Notepad in windows. Notepad can recognize many kinds of format, i.e. C/C++, SQL, TaX...
TeXnicCenter
WinEdt
Latex Editor.
7-Zip
WinZip, WinRAR
File compressor
FileZilla
WS_FTP
FTP client and server.
Spybot-Search & Destroy
Ad-Aware
remove the spyware from your computer immediately
FireFox
M$ IE
Maybe I should put this item in the first place. Forgive me.
TightVNC
PCAnywhere
Remote your pc. VNC support most OS, i.e. Windows, BSD, Linux...
MayaVi
A free powerful, scientiful data visualizer writen in Python.
GIMP Photoshop Image Manipulation Program
Inkscape
Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw
Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
TeXnicCenter
WinEdt
TeXnicCenter is a feature rich integrated development environment (IDE) for developing LaTeX-documents on Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP) freely available under GPL.
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LaTex:

The Not So Short Guide to Latex (pdf)- This is possibly the best guide available. Gives the reader help with the basics of Latex.

A beginner's introduction to typesetting with Latex (pdf). My favorite latex book.

Welcome to the UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions on the Web.

Online LaTeX tutorials, from Andy Roberts.


My Friends:

  1. Zhi Yang, Research interests: Super-resolution reconstruction, Ultrasound image pixel compounding.
  2. Chunming Li, Research interests: Snake/Level Set Image Segmentation
  3. Jim Macione