2.3 Computer Vision Research Groups and Technical Report Series Information

2.3.1 General Technical Reports

• Technical Report,
  TRFrom various places. BibRef 0000
• Ph. D. Thesis,
  Ph.D. BibRef
• Masters Thesis,
  Masters BibRef

2.3.2 Computer Vision Related Research Groups, North America -- US

• ActivEye,
  Video analysis software.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Surveillance. Recently acquired by Honeywell. ( See also Honeywell. ).
• Adept,
  1975. Robotics systems.
  WWW Version. Vendor, Robots. Research Group, Company.
• Amerinex Applied Imaging,
  Image Understanding software
  WWW Version. Vendor, Image Analysis. The Aphelion software environment.
• Arizona State University,
  Arts, Media and Engineering Program
  WWW Version. Also: Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• ASPRS: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
  The US society for Photogrammetry.
  WWW Version. Society, US. And publishes Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PhEngRS)
• Avaya Labs,
  Multimedia Technologies.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Multimedia. Descendant of Bell Labs and Lucent. Spun off in 2002.
• Boston University,
  Image and Video Computing Research Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Research in human motion and gesture analysis, Image and video databases, medical image analysis, multicamera vision systems, tracking and behaviors.
• Brown University,
  Brown LEMS, Providence, RI 02912.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Primary areas of Image processing, shape representation, modeling, matching. BibRef
• California Institute of Technology,
  Computational Vision Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Computational foundations of vision. CalTech 101 Objects Categories,
  Dataset, Objects.
  HTML Version. CalTech 100 Natural Scenes,
  Dataset, Natural Scenes.
  WWW Version. CalTech Archived Images,
  Dataset, Images.
  HTML Version.
• CITeR: Center for Identification Technology Research,
  2007.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• Charles River Analytics, Inc.,
  Computational Vision Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Software. The VisionKit™ for computer vision systems development.
• CMU School of Computer Science,
  CMU-CS-TR or BibRef CMU-CSMany CMU reports are available online:
  HTML Version. of the index. Research Group, US. BibRef
• CMU Robotics Institute,
  CMU-RI-TR
  WWW Version. List of research projects:
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• CMU Digital Mapping Laboratory,
  The intersection of image understanding, artificial intelligence, and cartography.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• CMU interACT,
  International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• Carnegie Mellon Vision and Autonomous Systems Center, VASC,
  Computer vision, autonomous navigation, virtual reality, intelligent manipulation, space robotics
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• Colorado State University,
  Computer Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Focuses on semantic object recognition in complex domains. Human ID project.
• Columbia University,
  ColumbiaNew York. Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE)
  WWW Version. Three areas: creation of vision sensors, desing of physice based models, and algorithms for scene interpretation. Robotics Group:
  WWW Version. Includes navigation and 3-D models building and visualization. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Abel Stock,
  Commercial image database
  WWW Version. Dataset, Images.
• Cornell University,
  CornellIthaca, NY.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Databases, motion and recognition. BibRef
• Delphi Electronics and Safety,
  Driver safety, monitoring, assistance.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Driver Assistance.
• Digital Equipment Corp.,
  DEC Research Group, Company. BibRef
• Duke University,
  Duke Robotics Intelligence and Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Robotics, tracking, ASL and gesture recognition.
• Electro Technical Laboratory,
  ETLUS Army research lab. Research Group, US Government. BibRef
• Epson Research and Development,
  ASD Group. Algorithms and devices for digital imaging and video.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Fotosearch,
  2007. Stock photography.
  WWW Version. Dataset, Images.

• George Mason University,
  Center for Distributed and Intelligent Computation
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Biometrics, robotics, HCI, neural networks, models from video.
• Georgia Tech,
  Computational Perception Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Aware environments, human activity, tracking, modeling, multimedia, video scene reconstruction, image-based redering, animation. See also Large Geometric Models Archive.
• GE Research,
  Computer Vision Group --
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Aerial video analysis, surveillance, change detection.
• Harvard University,
  HarvardHarvard Robotics Lab
  WWW Version. Surgical Planning Lab:
  WWW Version. Medical, surgical applications. Research Group, US. BibRef 0000
• HP Labs,
  Managing photo and video collections.
  HTML Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Image Query.
• HRL Laboratories,
  Computer Vision Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Descended from the Hughes Research Lab.
• Honeywell,
  Security Systems.
  WWW Version. Honeywell Video Systems.
  HTML Version. Vendor, Surveillance. Research Group, Company. Recently acquired ActivEye. ( See also ActivEye. )
• Hunter College of CUNY,
  Computer Vision Laboratory
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Photorealistic 3D modeling.
• IEEE Computer Society: TC PAMI,
  Technical Committee for: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  WWW Version. Society, US. The organization that runs the primary US meetings CVPR, WACV with associate workshops, and ICCV (Listing) and through the IEEE and Computer Society itself, publishes the IEEE Transactions on PAMI. Listing, See also Bibliography Supporters.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society,
  Signal Processing, Image Processing.
  WWW Version. Society, US. The organization that runs the Annual Image Processing conference (ICIP) and publishes Transactions on Image Processing.
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
  Yorktown Heights, NY, IBM Watsonor BibRef IBMand some report number. Research Group, Company. BibRef
• IBM Journal of Research and Development,
  IBMRD
  HTML Version. Research Group, Company. BibRef
• IBM Systems Journal,
  IBMSystem Research Group, Company. BibRef
• IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin,
  IBMTech Research Group, Company. BibRef
• IBM Research,
  Exploratory Computer Vision Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company.
• Imagen,
  PCB Inspection, image databases, face detection, logo search
  WWW Version. Vendor, Face Detection. Vendor, Image Query.
• Imagineer Systems,
  2000. Research Group, Company.
  WWW Version. Vendor, Image Processing. Software development for film production, includes image matching, warping, etc.
• Intel Corp.,
  Intel Research Group, Company. Vendor, Image Processing. Intel is the source for OpenCV. See also OpenCV. BibRef
• International Computer Science Institute,
  ICSIBerkeley, CA. Research Group, US.
  WWW Version. BibRef
• International Federation of Information Processing,
  IFIP
  WWW Version. Society, International. BibRef
• Iowa State University,
  Human and Computer Vision Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. How the human visual system receives, selects and processes information in real-world and virtual environments.
• ITT Visual Information Solutions,
  Image Processing and Analysis.
  WWW Version. Vendor, Image Analysis. System: ENVI. Developed from early NASA work on Mariner.
• Jet Proplusion Laboratory,
  JPLPasadena, CA. Robotic systems group:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US Government. Stereo, robotics, guidance, Mars Rovers. BibRef
• Johns Hopkins University,
  Computational Interaction and Robotics Lab
  WWW Version. And: Center for Imaging Science
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Understanding the problems that involve dynamic, spatial interaction at the intersection of vision, robotics, and human-computer interaction.
• KitWare, Inc,
  Medical, 3D image analysis and software development.
  HTML Version. Vendor, Image Processing.
• Khoral Research, Inc,
  Software development.
  WWW Version. Creators of Khoros which is now available from: AccuSoft,
  
  WWW Version. Code, Image Processing. Research Group, Company.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
  Imaging and Collaborative Computing Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Image understanding, reasoning, image-based informatics, and computational molecular biology.
• Lincoln Laboratory Journal,
  LLJ BibRef
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  MIT
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI Lab,
  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab CSAILAI group memo BibRef MIT AI Memoor BibRef MIT AIor BibRef MIT AIMAI Memos are shorter reports. BibRef MIT AI-TRor BibRef MIT AI TRAI Tech Reports are longer (often the thesis). Also Project MAC Technical Reports BibRef MAC-TRMost are available through: AI TR and Memo series go to 2004, then the CSAIL series.
  WWW Version. CS & AI Lab Vision Research:
  WWW Version. Activity, learning, medical vision, and vision interfaces. Perceptual Science Group:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab,
  Human Dynamics
  WWW Version. Mediaor BibRef VismodThe Vismod papers are available through
  WWW Version. No longer an active research group, old info via:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Michigan State University,
  Department of Computer Science, MSU-ENGRAlso BibRef MSUAnd the lab home page:
  WWW Version. Also a Biometrics group:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Microsoft Research,
  Microsoft
  WWW Version. There are a large number of other research groups under the vision category. Vision for applications, HCI. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Image Analysis. See also Photosynth. BibRef
• Middlebury College,
  Robotics and Vision Research:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Stereo, active vision, feature matching, motion.
• MERL: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories,
  Computer Vision Project.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Surveillance.
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Intelligent Systems Division,
  NISTIR
  WWW Version. Earlier references: BibRef Journal of Research National Bureau of Standards,
  NBS( Vol ), General info:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US Government. BibRef Newton Labs,
  1992.
  WWW Version. Vendor, Image Analysis. Variety of image analysis systems and hardware for tracking, etc. NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software,
  
  WWW Version. Code, Mathematical Software.
• New York University,
  Department of Computer Science, NYULaboratory for Computational Vision.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Statistical properties, motion, image analysis. BibRef
• North Carolina State University,
  Image Analysis Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Hyperspectral imaging, medical imaging. See also IFS: Image File System.
• Northwestern University,
  Image and Video Processing Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Video, wireless video transmission, audio-visual speech, shape coding, texture segmentation, wavelet based video compression, and video surveillance.
• Ohio State University,
  Signal Analysis and Machine Perception Laboratory (SAMPL)
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Broad research areas, hyper and multi-spectral, aerial images, medical images, range processing, human motion, inspection. Various datasets for 2-D and 3-D data. OSU Datasets,
  Dataset, Images.
  HTML Version.
• Oklahoma State University,
  Visual Computing and Image Processing Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Aerial image analysis, infrared images,
• Optical Society of America,
  Optics, human and artificial.
  WWW Version. Society, US. Publisher of JOSA and relted journals. (JOSA).
• Oregon State University,
  Computer Graphics and Vision.
  HTML Version. Research Group, US.
• Palo Alto Research Center,
  Information Visualization & Interaction:
  HTML Version. Perceptual Document Analysis:
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Document Analysis. Document analysis.
• Penn State University,
  Computer Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Multiple vision groups -- perception, action and cognition, multidimensional image processing, intelligent information systems. CAD based vision, HCI, robotics.
• Princeton,
  PrincetonComputer Science Department. Computer vision group.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Human action classification. Dataset.
  WWW Version. BibRef
• Purdue University,
  PurdueThe robot Vision Lab page:
  WWW Version. Sensory intelligence for the machines of the future. And, VIPER: Video and Image Processing Laboratory:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Rand Corporation,
  RandSanta Monica, CA. BibRef
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.,
  Troy, NY, Various Departments, RPIThe Vision Lab home page:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Image registration, tracking, segmentation, 3d modeling and geometric algorithms. BibRef
• Robot Vision 2 Inc.,
  Image processing.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Code, Image Analysis. Cross Platform software development and software for Image Processing and Robot Vision
• Rutgers,
  RutgersRobust Image Understanding Laboratory.
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Develop reliable techniques for Computer Vision employing modern statistical methods. BibRef
• Samsung Digital Media Solutions Lab,
  Detection, tracking, recognition. The Irvine, CA group works on "new" TV products.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company.
• Sarnoff Research,
  SarnoffVision Technology Unit
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. There are also Sarnoff spin-off companies. BibRef
• Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute,
  Human vision research.
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company.
• SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering,
  Optical engineering
  WWW Version. Society, US. Especially the SPIE workshops.
• SRI AI Center,
  SRI AICenteror BibRef SRI-TNor BibRef SRI AIMemoor BibRef SRIThe Vision group home page:
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Machine vision, expert systems, evidential reasoning, and virtual reality. BibRef
• Stanford University, Computer Science Departent,
  Technical report STAN-CSsome as BibRef Stanford AIStanford Vision and Imaging Science and Technology
  WWW Version. The (Former) Stanford Vision Lab:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Stanford University Medical Center,
  National Biocomputation Center
  WWW Version. Medical imaging. Research Group, US.
• Stevens Institute of Technology,
  CS Department, Computer Vision Lab.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• SUNY at Buffalo,
  Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR)
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Document analysis.
• SUNY at Stony Brook,
  Computer Vision Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. 3D modeling, depth from focus, depth from stereo.
• Texas A&M University,
  Sketch Recognition Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Integration of sketch and gesture
• University of California, Berkeley,
  Various Departments, UCBMay also include LLL and LBL. Computer Vision Group
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Grouping, matching, object recognition, human activities, vision based traffic surveillance, image retrieval. BibRef
• University of California, Irvine,
  Computer Vision Lab
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Representation and recognition of 3-D objects.
• University of California, Los Angeles,
  Vision Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Structure form motion, control, deformations.
• University of California, Riverside,
  Visualization & Intelligent Systems Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Automatic object recognition, learning in computer vision and pattern recognition, multimodal biometrics, image and video databases, autonomous navigation, network monitoring and intrusion detection, remote sensing, manufacturing, and various industrial, medical, and biological applications.
• University of California, San Diego,
  Computer Vision Laboratory:
  WWW Version. Statistical Visual Computing Laboratory:
  WWW Version. UC San Diego Computer Vision and Robotics Research:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Sensor-based intelligent systems.
• University of California, Santa Barbara,
  Various Departments, UCSBFour Eyes Lab:
  WWW Version. Image Processing and Vision Research Labs
  WWW Version. Computer Vision Research Laboratory:
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• University of California, Santa Cruz,
  Perceptual Science Lab
  WWW Version. Good face analysis information. Research Group, US.
• University of Central Florida,
  UCF
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Video retrieval, tracking, object recognition, aerial images, video understanding, segmentation, shape from shading, matching. BibRef
• University of Colorado, Colorado Springs,
  Vision And Security Technology Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. The VAST lab moved here from Lehigh. Video surveillance systems, biometrics, biometric fusion, supporting trauma treatment, steganalysis, network security, detection of chemical and bilogical weapons.
• University of Delaware,
  Video / Image Modeling and Synthesis Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• University of Florida,
  Center for Computer Vision and Visualization
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• University of Georgia,
  Visual and Parallel Computing Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Ojbect tracking, surgery, compression, genomics.
• University of Hawaii at Manoa,
  Image Sequence Processing Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Sequence processing and coding.
• University of Houston,
  Computational Biomedicine Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Medical applications.
• University of Illinois,
  Urbana-Champaign Various Departments, UIUCOr BibRef IllinoisVision Lab page:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Robotics, Textures, 3-D recognition and representation, cameras, rendering, HCI. Dataset, Texture. 25 textures, 40 samples. Dataset, Natural Scenes. 15 Categories. Dataset, Stereo Data. 9 objects, 80 images Dataset, Multi-View Data. 10 datasets, 24 images of a single object each. Dataset, Visual Hull. Dataset, Object Recognition. Birds, Butterflys, etc. Dataset, Video.
  WWW Version. BibRef
• University of Kentucky,
  Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• University of Louisville,
  Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Medical imaging, remote sensing.
• University of Maryland,
  Center for Automation Research Marylandor BibRef UMD-CAR-TRor Mostly BibRef UMDUnder the CS TR series. More recent papers under: BibRef UMIACSFor online versions try:
  WWW Version. or
  HTML Version. The overall Institute for Advanced Computer Studies:
  WWW Version. The Computer Vision Lab (Center for Automation Research):
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Large varied research group. BibRef
• University of Massachusetts,
  Computer Science COINSAlso BibRef UMassGeneral information
  WWW Version. and for the techreports
  WWW Version. Most, but not all, since 1991 are available by year and report number. And the Computer vision Lab page:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Large group with various projects. Aerial image analysis, sensor networks, sign recognition. BibRef
• University of Miami,
  Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory
  HTML Version. automated video surveillance, face modeling and recognition. And: Center for Confluent Media Studies
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Animation, Telepresence
• University of Michigan,
  Computer Science Michigan
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• University of Minnesota,
  Artifical Intelligence, Robotics and Vision Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Learning, robotics, activity recognition, navigation.
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Information Science Research Institute,
  ISRIAnnual reports on OCR software. 9605
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• University of Nevada, Reno,
  Computer Vision Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Object recognition, visual motion analysis, 3D reconstruction, face detection/recognition, biometrics, tracking.
• University of North Carolina,
  Vision Group
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Interactive graphics, image processing.
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
  Vision Group
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Interactive graphics, image processing.
• University of Notre Dame,
  Computer Vision Research Lab
  WWW Version. And: Laboratory for Image and Signal Analysis
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Face, iris, range analysis.
• University of Pennsylvania,
  UPennGrasp lab.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Robotics, vision, perception, control, automation and learning. BibRef
• University of Rochester,
  RochesterComputer Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Vision, robotics, computational vision, active vision. BibRef
• University of South Florida,
  Image Analysis Research Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. 3D structure, 3D motion, object or person identity, material property, or geometric shape from images.
• University of Southern California, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems,
  USC_IRISand BibRef USC_ISGOr BibRef USCVision Group home page:
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Video analysis, 3D recognition, activity description. See also Bibliography Supporters. BibRef
• University of Southern California, Signal and Image Processing,
  USC_SIPI
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Dataset, Images. Image processing. Some of the old standard image datasets (texture, vehicles, compression). BibRef
• University of Southern California, Visual Processing Laboratory,
  Visual Processing Lab.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
  Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. 3-D recognition and modeling.
• University of Texas,
  Univ. of TexasComputer Vision Research Center.
  WWW Version. Virtual Reality Lab:
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Human activity recognition, image retrieval. BibRef
• University of Texas, Dallas,
  Face Perception and Research Laboratories
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Face recognition, tracking.
• University of Utah,
  Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging. visualization,
  WWW Version. Visual Environments:
  WWW Version. Prototyping, interfaces, virtual environments, Research Group, US.
• University of Virginia,
  Computer Vision Research
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• University of Washington,
  GRAIL: Graphics and Imaging Laboratory
  WWW Version. Video, photo tourism, reconstructions, textures, matching, modeling Also: Image Computing Systems Lab
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Image processing, medical imaging, and computer imaging.
• University of West Florida,
  Robotics and Image Analysis Laboratory
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Robotics and medical imaging.
• University of Wisconsin,
  Computer Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Image-based modeling, analysis, recognition, and rendering; Medical image analysis; Motion analysis; Three-dimensional shape representation and recognition, especially image-based representations.
• University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire,
  Computer Vision
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• U.S. Geological Survey,
  USGS Spectroscopy Lab.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Methods for identifying and mapping materials through spectroscopic remote sensing. And if you want something really fun: (Live, or near-live, Landsat images.)
  WWW Version.
• Vanderbilt University,
  Center for Intelligent Systems
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Robotics.
• Videre Design,
  Robotics, Stereo
  WWW Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Stereo. Derived from SRI work. Distribute the Stereo system
• Virage,
  Image databases.
  HTML Version. Research Group, Company. Vendor, Image Query. Image database management systems.
• Virginia Tech,
  VPISUAlso Virginia Poyltechnic and State University Blacksburg, VA Computer Vision Group.
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. BibRef
• Washington University in St. Louis,
  Media and Machines
  WWW Version. Research Group, US. Graphics, computer vision, robotics.
• Willow Garage,
  2007. Robot systems.
  WWW Version. Vendor, Robots. Vendor, Image Processing. Research Group, Company. Mobile robots mostly. Open source startup. Support and developemnt for OpenCV. See also OpenCV.
• Worchester Polytechnic Institute,
  Image Science Research Group
  WWW Version. Research Group, US.
• Wright State University,
  Intelligent Systems Lab
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Surgery, range sensors, image registration.
• Yale,
  YaleNew Haven, CT. Yale School of Medicine Image Processing and Analysis
  WWW Version. Biological Image code. See also Bioimage Suite. And, Center for Computational Vision and Control
  HTML Version. Research Group, US. Face dataset. See also Yale Face Database. BibRef

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