Academia

Journals

• Robotics: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Journal of Field Robotics, Autonomous Robots,
• CPS, WSN, and CS: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS),
• Computer Vision and Machine Learning: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 
• Control and Automation: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), 
• IEEE Transactions, Journals, and Letters, ACM Journals and Magazines, Journal Citation Reports,

Conferences

• CPS, WSN, Mobile: CPSWeek, IPSN, Sensys, MobiSys, MobiCom, MobiHoc, ICDSC; Sensor network conferences.
• Robotics, Control: ICRA 2012, IROS 2012, RSS, CDC 2012,  
• Computer Vision, HCI: CVPapers, Computer vision conferences; CHI 2011 (Google research at CHI 2011),

Recent Research and Datasets

• Computer Vision: VisionBib.Com: Computer Vision Information Pages, CVonline,
• Datasets: CAVIAR Test Case Scenarios, Daimler Pedestrian Benchmarks,  CVonline database, Visual Tracking (David Ross), Caltech Pedestrian Dataset, ImageNet (for object or scene recognition),
• PETS 2009 Dataset (Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance), Visual Surveillance Datasets, CLEAR 2007,
• ScanNet (Annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenes)
• WSN: Data Sensing Lab, Wireless Sensor Networks Bibliography by Bhaskar Krishnamachari (2007), 
• KITTI dataset (Autonomous Driving),

Projects and Research Groups

• WSN: 
• SENSEI project (EU), WSN Research Group,
• SenseWeb, SensorMap (Microsoft), 
• Robotics: Autonomous Robots Blog, Mobile Manipulation (IEEE/RAS Technical Committee),
• BRICS (Best Practices in Robotics), RoboEarth (WWW for robots), 
• RoboticsCourseWare (robotics courses),
• Computer vision:
• Gesture Recognition: University of Coimbra Mobile Robotics Lab, GestureTek, CynergyLab (youtube), GestureCube, Open Source Program HandVu,
• Visual servoing software - lagadic ViSP
• Intel Labs Seattle,

Research Related Information

• Writing: The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (older online version)

• Technical Writing:
  

  • How to write a great research paper by Simon Peyton Jones (How to give a great research talk)

  • Mathematical Writing

    by Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, and Paul M. Roberts

Software

• Scientific Computing
• SciPy (open source scientific computing tool), NumPy,  Numerical Recipes,  Octave ("open source MATLAB"),
• MATLAB: MATLAB Central - File Exchange,
• Robotics
• Robot Operating System (ROS), Karto (SLAM SDK), 
• Player/Stage/Gazebo, Introduction to player/stage/gazebo (slides),  wiki - player/stage driver, Drivers list, libplayer c++, 
• Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), Point Cloud Library (3D data processing software),
• USARSim, 

• Computer Vision

  • OpenFace (Python and Torch implementation of face recognition with DNNs)
  • OpenCV, VLFeat - Open source CV algorithms implemented in C (supports MATLAB interfaces)
  • Computer Vision Software (A comprehensive list of links of CV software), 
  • Affine covariant features (Software: Harris, Hessian, MSER, IBR, EBR, Salient region detectors and a region descriptor; Datasets),

  • MATLAB

    • MATLAB and Octave Functions for Computer Vision and Image Processing (by Peter Kovesi),
    • MATLAB Functions for Multiple View Geometry (by Andrew Zisserman),
    • Resources of Salient Patch Features  (by Liangliang Cao),
  • Category Independent Object Proposals (code and database)
• WSN: TinyOS, Contiki, Network Simulator (ns-2),
• Typesetting: MiKTex, TexPoint, LaTex Beamer, HEVEA,
• Windows: Cygwin, 
• Web: Plone contents,
• C/C++ : mix C and C++,

Hardware

• Cameras: nVela, Baslers eXcite, Panasonic D-IMager, PointGrey (Bumblebee stereo camera), Lytro (light field camera), 
• Sensors: Velodyne (3D HD Lidar), 
• Humanoid Robots: Aldebaran Nao, Kawada HRP2,
  
• Mobile Robots: KUKA youBot (mobile robot with arms), Anybots (Tele-presence robot), MobileRobots (Pioneers), Lego Mindstorms,
• iRobot Create: Create.exe, Owner Guide, Open Interface manual, Command module manual, Player/stage - create driver, roomba driver, How to make iRobot, Let's play with iRobot Create, Mapping with iRobot Roomba, SunSPOTWorld, SmURV robotics platform using iRobot Create, MATLAB Toolbox for iRobot Create, MATLAB-based iRobot Create Simulator,
• Arduino (open-source electronics prototyping platform), Adafruit Industries (DIY electronics and kits),
  

News

• TED, MIT Technology Review, EE Times,

Industry

• WSN: Memsic (previously Crossbow), Meshnetics, Sun Spot World, libelium, Samraksh, Digi, Data Sensing Lab,

• Camera Networks: STATS (athlete tracking system),

• Robotics: Willow Garage, Kiva Systems, AnkiDrive,
• Harvest Automation, Map of Robot Manufacturers (The Robot Report, 2012),
• IoT: UBE (controlling home using a smartphone), Sensor Platforms (FreeMotion), Insteon (smart home devices), AeroScout (Wi-Fi location services),