Tips Worth Sharing

Studying, writing, etc.

• Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. – A superb little book (available free of cost) with wonderful tips.

• Rapaport's guide on how to study.

• How to give a good talk?

• Randy Pausch's video on Time Management (76 minutes very well spent!).

• Graduate School: Interview with Prof. Yale Patt, University of Texas

Programming

• Programming tips: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist!

• Introduction to Matlab

• Free alternatives:

  • Octave

  • FreeMat

  • SciLab

  • Open Source Software for Science: Python

• Other Stuff:

  • Convert PNG/JPEG to EPS/PDF

  • Convert excel to latex tables

  • Writing Equations in Latex

Test Images and Videos

• Kodak Lossless True Color Image Suite

• Test Images and Videos from Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering

• Columbia Consumer Video (CCV) Database

• Image and Video Quality Resources – Excelent list of online resources compiled by S. Winkler.

• Video Library and Tools from Network Systems Lab (NSL) at SFU

• Xiph.org Test Media

• The Consumer Digital Video Library

Professional Societies

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

  • IEEE Signal Processing Society;

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) – the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.

• Sociedade Brasileira de Computação – The Brazilian Computer Society congregates researcher, professors, students, and professional in the area of computing.

Publishing