General

•      http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Free technical books in PDF form
• MindModeling  like SETI at home but for cognitive science
• Looking for data to model? check out https://nyu.databrary.org/
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Computer Vision

•      for python: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/gestaltrevision/python_for_visres/blob/master/index.ipynb

3D Model Databases

     Large/relevant and research oriented

• Princeton SUN3D Database http://sun3d.cs.princeton.edu/  
•  ScanNet 3D Database http://www.scan-net.org./ (contains relatively large amount of annotated scene data) 
• https://www.shapenet.org/ (Princteon, Stanford, TTIC collaboration, very large, designed for research) 
• Vladlen Koltun ran this project, before he became a research-manager at Intel labs: http://redwood-data.org/3dscan/index.html
• http://www.michaelfirman.co.uk/RGBDdatasets/ (website listing of existing RGB-D databases) 

     research oriented 

• https://hdl.handle.net/1839/CA8BDA0E-B042-417F-8661-8810B57E6732@view (147 models, designed for VR research, standardized for many characteristics)
• http://cvgl.stanford.edu/projects/objectnet3d/ (100 categories, Stanford object database) 
• http://ob3d.scicog.fr/ (cognitive science 3D object database)
• http://rll.eecs.berkeley.edu (Berkely 3D object database BigBird) 
• http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/sizes/ A project to infer realistic scales for 3D models.

     general 

• Google 3D Warehouse http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ (huge, but has .skp files only, possible link rot, see link below)
• https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/?hl=en  
• Turbosquid: http://www.turbosquid.com/ (most models cost money)
• National Taiwan University 3D Model database (includes retrieval function for large set of free 3D objects, website has been recently inaccessible): http://3d.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~dynamic/database/index.html 
• http://www.blender-models.com/ (models in blender. Small.)  
• http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/sizes/ A project to infer realistic scales for 3D models.    
• https://cults3d.com/en (~5000 models, mix of free and paid, focus on 3D printing)
• https://pinshape.com/ (~13000 models, mix of free and paid, focus on 3D printing*) 
• https://www.thingiverse.com/ (~9000 models, free, focus on 3D printing*) 
• https://grabcad.com/ (~27000 models, free, focus on technical and scale models)
• https://www.cgtrader.com/ (large model set, mix of free and paid)
• https://3dexport.com/ (small, paid, premium models) 
• https://archive3d.net/ (large, free, formats: gms 3ds)
• http://www.3dmodelfree.com/ (free, mostly household models, format: 3ds)
• http://www.oyonale.com/modeles.php?lang=en&format=OBJ (free, various formats) 

     *Mostly .stl files.

     **Note that there are also many small model databases that specialise in different types of models, yeggi (http://www.yeggi.com/)

      is a search engine that can be used to find models types that may not exist in the bigger databases listed above.

Labeled Photo Databases

3D Environment Description Languages

• x3d (Web3d, formally VRML) What SOIL uses
• Getting started: http://www.web3d.org/realtime-3d/x3d/getting-started 
• Introductory book: http://x3dgraphics.com/
• Software for Editing x3d: https://savage.nps.edu/X3D-Edit/#Downloads 
• COLLADA: https://collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/COLLADA_-_Digital_Asset_and_FX_Exchange_Schema
• OpenSim

3D Virtual Environments

     The lab has chosen to wait for HTML5.

     Commercial Tools:

          Second Life

          Twinity

          IMVU

          Web.Alive

     Open-source Tools:

          OpenSimulator

          Open Wonderland

          Open Cobalt

     Free Game Engines and Game Development Tools:

          Unreal Engine

          Unity3D

          CryEngine

          XNA

          Blender

          Python-Ogre

Brain Atlas

     http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/cgi-bin/DA/imageform

Case-Based Reasoning:

     CBR Wiki     http://cbrwiki.fdi.ucm.es/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 

Cognitive and AI Architectures

•      OpenCog
•      ACT-R
•      Python ACT-R
• http://pybrain.org/
• Nengo 

Image Databases

• CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/
• Peekaboom (tagged)
• Labelme (tagged)
• CVonline (computer vision; mixed) http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/Imagedbase.htm
• They photographed about a thousand objects from various angles...http://aloi.science.uva.nl/
• Scenes photographed and labeled http://places.csail.mit.edu/places2_arxiv.pdf 

Natural Sound Archive

http://cornelluniversity.tumblr.com/post/40770771576/worlds-largest-natural-sound-archive-now-fully

InfoVis Wiki

•      http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

Free Visualization Software

• Open Indicators Consortium     http://weblab.cs.uml.edu/ivpr/micoviz/
• Graph visualization:
• http://graphviz.org/
• http://gephi.org/ 

Human Computation Games

•      FACTory: http://webgame.cyc.com/game.html

Final Graphic Output Technologies

•      sketch2photo: http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/montage/main.htm
• apprently Marc Alexa has a competitor to this, too
•      CG2real: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/46335/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-034.pdf?sequence=1
• http://www.visionegg.org/ 

Natural Language Processing 

• NLTK Python library: http://nltk.org/
• Wordnet English database of words and their relations (e.g., part-whole): http://wordnet.princeton.edu/