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	The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. (Oscar Wilde) Books Some of the books I enjoyed reading or I like to use as a reference: D. P. Bertsekas; Nonlinear Programming; Athena Scientific C. M. Bishop; Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning; Springer S. Boyd and L. Vandenberghe; Convex Optimization; Cambridge University Press T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman; The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction; Springer D. Koller and N. Friedman; Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques; The MIT Press K. B. Petersen and M. S. Pedersen; The Matrix Cookbook; http://matrixcookbook.com/ R. E. Schapire and Y. Freund; Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms; The MIT Press M. J. Wainwright and M. I. Jordan; Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference; Now Publishers Inc. C/C++ Libraries For my research I rely on many libraries developed by other groups and people. I want to take the opportunity to say "Thank you!" ACML AMD Core Math Library, an optimized and threaded BLAS/LAPACK implementation. Boost A collection of useful code snippets where I mainly benefit from the graph algorithms. CGAL Computational Geometry Algorithms Library, e.g. for processing meshes. DLib Among others Image Processing, Machine Learning and Numerical Algorithms. graphLAB A new parallel framework for machine learning. GSL GNU Scientific Library with many special functions and random number generators. (Windows) Gurobi Optimization State-of-the-art mathematical programming solver ITK Insight Toolkit provides many image processing algorithms. libDAI Library for Discrete Approximate Inference in Factor Graphs. libSVM Library for Support Vector Machines. lpSolve Library for solving linear programs. MPICH2 High performance and widely portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. OpenCV Open source computer vision is a library of programming functions for computer vision. OpenMP It supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran. OpenMPI An open source high performance Message Passing (MPI-2) Library implementation. PGM An extensible C++ template library for statistical inference in probabilistic graphical models. STAIR Vision Library Provides a range of software infrastructure for computer vision, machine learning, and probabilistic graphical models. SVM struct Structured Support Vector Machine for complex outputs. SVM struct latent Structured Support Vector Machine for complex outputs with latent variables. Vigra Vision with Generic Algorithms is a computer vision library that puts its main emphasize on customizable algorithms and data structures. VXL VXL is a collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation.			Books C/C++ Libraries

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