Resources for Vision and Robotics

For the practitioners of Vision and Robotics, relevant sources of information and software platforms are the sine qua non for effectiveness (doing the right thing) and efficiency (doing things right) in research and development.

A full list of resources would be of course boundless, but the prominent (in terms of popularity and spread) resources would probably suffice the average interest:

Mailing lists (conferences cfp, job openings, seminars, news):

http://lists.diku.dk/mailman/listinfo/imageworld (Computer Vision community)

https://lists.iais.fraunhofer.de/sympa/info/euron-dist (Robotics community)

http://www-clmc.usc.edu/mailman/listinfo/robotics-worldwide (Robotics community)

Software platforms:

Robot Operating System (ROS): http://www.ros.org/wiki/

Open Computer Vision Library (OpenCV): http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

Computational Geometry Algorithms Library (CGAL): http://www.cgal.org/

Blender (3D Content Creation Suite): http://www.blender.org/

Open Graphics Library (OpenGL): http://www.opengl.org/

Web Graphics Library (WebGL): http://www.khronos.org/webgl/

The use of all the above resources are FREE for everyone and tutorials are all around the internet for amateurs and professionals. Get a grip on and enjoy!