• Background material (tutorials, software, bibliography)
• Relevant conferences
• Relevant journals
• Document Preparation
• Miscellaneous
• del.icio.us

Background material

• CVPR 2000 tutorial: Vision by Inference and Learning in Graphical Models ICASSP 2001 tutorial: Probabilistic Inference Techniques for Adaptive Signal Processing
  [ PS | PS.GZ | PS.Z | PDF ]

• K-means clustering
• Principal components analysis (PCA)
• Factor analysis
• Probability propagation (aka belief propagation, sum-product algorithm) in graphical models
• Wonderful list of matrix algebra tricks (by Mike Brooks)

Relevant conferences

Machine learning

• Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS)
• The Learning Workshop (Snowbird)
• Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
• Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Coding and information theory

• Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
• IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

Computer vision

• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
• European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

Speech processing

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
• IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)
• European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech)

Signal processing

• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Bioinformatics

• International Conference on Intelligent System for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
• International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)

Relevant journals

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)
• International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• Neural Computation
• Science
• Nature
• Bioinformatics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Journal of Computational Biology

Document Preparation

• Help with LaTeX commands
• The BibTeX format
• Some more LaTeX reference
• Downloading MiKTeX for Windows
• PSI technical reports style sheet
• PSI logo