MSc VIVE Resources

Recommended reading before you come

This is a nice general book on image processing, machine vision and computer graphics to give you a good taste of the course content:

The Computer Image by Alan H. Watt and Fabio Policarpo

This book is great for getting you up to speed with the maths requirement of the course:

Engineering Mathematics 5th ed (Paperback) by Dexter J. Booth (Editor), K.A. Stroud (Author)

We recommend you read and work through the problems in chapters:

This is good introduction to Matlab, which is the main programming environment on the course:

Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by Rudra Pratap

Other Revision Material

Bernard Buxton has prepared some material to help you get up to speed with the mathematics required on the MSc VIVE. Even if you are confident about your mathematics, we recommend you take the time to review this material over the summer before you begin the course. Follow this link.

Greg Turk at the Georgia Institute of Technology provides a list of mathematics subjects that are used in computer graphics and machine vision.

It is also a good idea to practise your programming before you start, especilly if you have are inexperienced or have not programmed for some time.

General online vision, graphics and other material

CV online contains a large body of teaching material, mainly for computer vision and related subjects, collected from universities around the country. This site contains links to several other similar resources too.

Mathematica Home Page provides information about Mathematica.

Matlab Home Page provides information about matlab releases and documentation.

MathWorld - All the maths you need to know but were afraid to ask.

ScienceWorld - Wider coverage of general science including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and more.