24/07/2015 - CVC: 20 Years Making Images Meaningful
The Computer Vision Center (CVC) located in the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which is the strategic Barcelona Synchrotron Park partner, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Computer vision is a branch of artificial...
The Computer Vision Center (CVC) located in the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which is the strategic Barcelona Synchrotron Park partner, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Computer vision is a branch of artificial intelligence that aims at creating machines able to understand images. This requires complex algorithms that can link what the machine sees to a given context: with the booming of Big Data, these immense data bases generated by all the things connected to the Internet, computer vision enjoys a veritable golden age.
The 4 lines of research of CVC and its 130 researchers and technicians are: 1) healthcare and welfare; 2) culture, experience and consumption; 3) mobility and transport; 4) advanced manufactory.
Referring to the mobility and transport sector as an example, the project of an autonomous car developed by the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems group (ADAS) can be mentioned, among others: this car, which already travels on the UAB campus, uses computer vision to move: compared with other projects such as the Google’s one that uses expensive laser-based sensors, the CVC project just requires normal cameras.
Congrats!
Image: the autonomous car from the ADAS/CVC research group
The Computer Vision Center (CVC) located in the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), which is the strategic Barcelona Synchrotron Park partner, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Computer vision is a branch of artificial intelligence that aims at creating machines able to understand images. This requires complex algorithms that can link what the machine sees to a given context: with the booming of Big Data, these immense data bases generated by all the things connected to the Internet, computer vision enjoys a veritable golden age.
The 4 lines of research of CVC and its 130 researchers and technicians are: 1) healthcare and welfare; 2) culture, experience and consumption; 3) mobility and transport; 4) advanced manufactory.
Referring to the mobility and transport sector as an example, the project of an autonomous car developed by the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems group (ADAS) can be mentioned, among others: this car, which already travels on the UAB campus, uses computer vision to move: compared with other projects such as the Google’s one that uses expensive laser-based sensors, the CVC project just requires normal cameras.
Congrats!
Image: the autonomous car from the ADAS/CVC research group
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