2.3.5 Computer Vision Related Research Groups, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania

• Academia Sinica,
  Laboratories of Intelligent Systems WWW Link.
  Research Group, Taiwan.
• Adept Electronic Solutions,
  Hardware and industrial solutions. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia.
• Asian Federation of Computer Vision,
  Asian umbrella organization. WWW Link.
  Society, Asia. The society sponsors the Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV).
• Australian Centre for Visual Technologies,
  University of Adelaide, Australia WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. Large image set search.
• Australian Pattern Recognition Society,
  Australian society. APRS. WWW Link.
  Society, Australia. Sponsor of the DICTA (International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications) Conferences
• The Australian National University,
  Centre for Visual Sciences WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. Robotics.
• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
  Signal Processing Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Israel.
• Bilkent University,
  RETINA Vision and Learning Group WWW Link.
  Also includes 3D TV Consortium. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Turkey.
• Bogaziçi University,
  Perceptual Intelligence Laboratory WWW Link.
  Research Group, Turkey.
• Cankaya University,
  Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Turkey.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation,
  National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition HTML Version.
  Visual Information Processing Group: HTML Version.
  Research Group, China.
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Computer Vision Laboratory WWW Link.
  Research Group, Hong Kong.
• City University of Hong Kong,
  Image Computing Group WWW Link.
  Research Group, Hong Kong.
• Cooperative Research Center for Sensor Signal and Image Processing,
  CSSIP - Adelaide, Australia WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. Operated until 2006.
• CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences,
  Variety of research projects, Mapping, Biometrics, among other non-image related projects. Overall designed to address major scientific issues in Australia. Spins off companies. HTML Version.
  Also: Information and Communication Technologies WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. See also Seeing Machines.
• Curtin University,
  The Institute for Multi-sensor processing & content analysis (IMPCA) WWW Link.
  All under the Department of Computing: WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. Robust systems, video content, surveillance.
• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology,
  Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Research Group WWW Link.
  Research Group, India.
• Gunma University,
  Mathematical analysis of computer vision. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• Hebrew University,
  Computer Vision Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Israel. Geometry of views, video analysis, object recognition, view synthesis.
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
  Vision and Graphics Laboratory HTML Version.
  Research Group, Hong Kong.
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
  Computer Vision Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, India.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,
  Vision Graphics Imaging Lab (ViGIL) WWW Link.
  Research Group, India.
• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
  Vision and Graphics Group: WWW Link.
  Research Group, India. Real Time Computer Vision, Image Based Rendering, Character Animation, Medical Visualization, Augmented Reality, Mesh Compression and Embedded Systems for Computer Vision.
• Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
  IUPRAI. WWW Link.
  Society, India. The Indian member of the IAPR.
• Indian Society for Remote Sensing,
  Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing. WWW Link.
  Society, India. The Indian member of the ISPRS.
• Information Processing Society of Japan: Computer Vision and Image Media,
  IPSJ SIG CVIM, Japanese society. WWW Link.
  Society, Japan.
• IPM Vision Group,
  motion and shape. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Iran.
• IEICE,
  IEICE Technical Group on Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (TG PRMU) HTML Version.
  Society, Japan. The primary electrical engineering society in Japan. Similar to IEEE.
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, JAIST,
  Computer Vision, Image Processing. Kotani HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan.
• KAIST: Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
  Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition WWW Link.
  Research Group, Korea. OCR.
• Keio University,
  HVRL WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• Korea University,
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition HTML Version.
  Research Group, Korea. Facial analysis, CBIR, human behavior, Sign language, gesture recognition.
• KritiKal Solutions,
  2006. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Company. Vendor, License Plate Recognition. Vehicle security systems. India. From ITT Delhi.
• Kumamoto University,
  Uchimura and Hu Laboratory HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan.
• Kyoto University,
  Computer Vision, Matsuyama. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan. Digital archiving of cultural assets, HCI, cooperative distributed vision. Human Computer Interaction, Minoh. HTML Version.
  
• Kyushu University,
  Laboratory for Intelligent Robots and vision Systems, Hasegawa & Kurazume. HTML Version.
  Laboratory for Image and Media Understanding: WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• Lotus Hill Institute,
  Imageparsing WWW Link.
  Research Group, China. Dataset, Segmentation. Code, Viewing. The Imageparsing site is devoted to providing ground truth datasets and Matlab code for annotation and viewing. See also LHI Object Datasets. See also LHI Sports Activity Dataset. See also LHI Segmentation Dataset. See also LHI Surveillance Dataset.
• Machine Vision and Application Organization,
  MVA-ORG WWW Link.
  Society, Japan. Primarily in Japan, but international. Runs the bi-annual MVA Conferences (not the MVA journal). (Conference Paper Listing).
• Monash University,
  Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS) Includes labs for vision research WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia.
• Nanyang Technological University,
  Vision and Control Research Program WWW Link.
  Research Group, Singapore.
• National group of New Zealand in Image and Vision Computing,
  IVCNZ WWW Link.
  Society, New Zealand.
• National ICT Australia,
  Document Analysis and Understanding WWW Link.
  Road Safety: Driver Drowsiness Detection WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia.
• National Taiwan Normal University,
  Video and Image Processing Lab WWW Link.
  (Mostly in Chinese) Research Group, Taiwan.
• National University of Singapore,
  Computer Vision. HTML Version.
  Bioimaging Group: WWW Link.
  Research Group, Singapore.
• Okayama University,
  Mathematical analysis of computer vision. HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan.
• OKI Electric Industry Company,
  Face Sensing Engine WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan. Vendor, Face Recognition. Face Recognition systems.
• Osaka University,
  Miura Lab, Active Intelligent Systems Laboratory. Replacement of the Shirai Lab. HTML Version.
  Motion, Robotics. Yachida Lab. HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan. Robotics, human tracking, recognition, hand postures.
• POSTECH: Pohang University of Science and Technology,
  Intelligent Media Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Korea.
• Ritsumei University,
  Computer Vision, Tanaka WWW Link.
  (Only in Japanese) Research Group, Japan.
• Seoul National University,
  3D Visual Information Procesing Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Korea. ATR, face detection, energy minimization.
• Sungkyunkwan University,
  Intelligent Systems Research Center WWW Link.
  Research Group, Korea.
• Technion Israel Institute of Technology,
  TechnionVision Research and Image Science Laboratory: Geometric image processing, diffusion WWW Link.
  Center for Intelligent Systems: WWW Link.
  HandNet Project: WWW Link.
  Research Group, Israel. BibRef 0400
• Tel Aviv University,
  Computer Vision HTML Version.
  Research Group, Israel.
• Tokyo Institute of Technology,
  Image processing. Hasegawa. HTML Version.
  And: Virtual reality, human interfaces, Sato-Koike. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• K. N. Toosi University of Technology,
  BioMedical Engineering Group HTML Version.
  Research Group, Iran.
• Toshiba,
  Multimedia Lab. HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan. Vendor, Face Recognition. Face recognition, 3D objects, Vehicles, Motion caputre, handwriting.
• Tsinghua University,
  Institute of HCI and Media Integration WWW Link.
  Research Group, China.
• Tsukuba University,
  3D Free Viewpoint Video, Massive Sensing (for secure and safe life), Mixed Reality (Advanced Virtual Reality) HTML Version.
  And: Computational Vision Science. WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• The University of Adelaide,
  Computer Vision Lab WWW Link.
  Research Group, Australia. 3D modelling from video, and automated video surveillance
• The University of Auckland,
  Intelligent Vision Systems New Zealand WWW Link.
  Research Group, New Zealand.
• University of Canterbury,
  Computer Vision Lab WWW Link.
  Also, Human Interface Technology Laboratory: WWW Link.
  Research Group, New Zealand.
• University of Cape Town,
  Digital Image Processing WWW Link.
  Research Group, South Africa. See also ImageLib: An Image Processing C++ Class Library.
• University of Hong Kong,
  Computer Science, Various research groups WWW Link.
  Research Group, Hong Kong.
• University of New South Wales,
  Computer Vision and Image Processing HTML Version.
  Research Group, Australia.
• University of Otago,
  Computer Vision Research Group HTML Version.
  Research Group, New Zealand. Optical flow.
• University of Technology, Sydney,
  Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab HTML Version.
  Research Group, Australia.
• University of Tokyo,
  Institute of Industrial Science Computer Vision Lab. Virtual reality, computer vision, intelligent transportation. HTML Version.
  And: Human Computer Interactions: Reflectance, Motion, Interactive systems. WWW Link.
  And: Ishikawa Oku Laboratory: Parallel processing for sensory information. HTML Version.
  Research Group, Japan.
• Waseda University,
  Computer Vision, Image Processing. Okada WWW Link.
  Research Group, Japan.
• University of Western Australia,
  Univ. of West. Aust.Vision and Visualization Research Group HTML Version.
  Research Group, Australia. Rendering, sign language, face recognition, forensic image analysis. BibRef
• University of Wollongogn,
  ICT Research Institute Visual and Audio Signal Processing (VASP) HTML Version.
  Research Group, Australia.
• Weizmann Institute of Science,
  Weizmann WWW Link.
  Research Group, Israel. Shape reconstruction, object recognition, perceptual grouping, matching, video analysis, BibRef