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This list encompasses both academic and industrial research groups working in computer vision and related areas. We believe it is the most comprehensive listing of this type anywhere in the world. But if we have somehow managed to omit your group, or the information we have is incorrect, please complete the following form and submit it to us. We'll then amend the page as necessary.

Research groups are listed alphabetically by country: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Peru, Republic of Ireland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America. Within each country, groups are order alphabetically by institution.

Australia

• Australian National University, Centre for Visual Sciences
  Biorobotic Vision group

• CSSIP
  Visual Processing Research Group

• Curtin University

• University of Melbourne, Computer Science
  Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence laboratory

• Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

• University of Technology, Sydney
  Computer Vision and Cluster Computing Laboratory

• University of Western Australia, Computer Science
  Robotics and Vision research group

Austria

• Graz University of Technology
  Computer Graphics and Vision Group

• Joanneum Research
  Institute of Digital Image Processing

• Technical University of Vienna
  Pattern Recognition and Image Processing group

• VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization

• Research Center for Advanced Computer Vision

Bangladesh

• Jahangirnagar University
  Human-Robot Symbiosis Group

Belarus

• Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, Minsk

Belgium

• Katholieke University Leuven
  Medical Image Computing
  Vision for Industry, Communication, and Services (VISICS)

• Royal Military Academy
  Signal and Image Processing Centre

Brazil

Cyclops Project
Research on Computer Vision Applications in Medicine

• University of Parana
  Computer Vision and Image Processing Group

• University of São Paulo
  Computer Vision group
  Creative Vision Group

• LSI Division of Artificial Intelligence and Automation

Canada

• University of British Columbia
  Laboratory for Computational Intelligence

• Laboratory for imagery, vision, and artificial intelligence

• Laval University
  Computer Vision and Systems laboratory

• McGill University
  Centre for Intelligent Machines

• University of Montreal
  Computer Vision & Geometric Modeling Lab

• National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
  Computational Video Group
  Visual Information Technology Group

• University of Ottawa
  Video, Image, Vision and Audio Research Group

• University of Saskatchewan
  Computer Vision

• Simon Fraser University
  Computational Vision laboratory

• University of Waterloo
  Vision and Image Processing Lab

• York University
  Center For Vision Research
  Vision, Graphics and Robotics

China

• Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition

• Institute for Image Recognition and Artifical Intelligence

• Lusterlighttech

• University of Ningbo
  College of Information

• SouthEast University
  Image Science and Technology

Croatia

• University of Zagreb
  Image Processing Group

Cuba

• Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, Centre of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
  Digital Signal Processing Group

Czech Republic

• Czech Technical University, Department of Control Engineering
  Center for Machine Perception

Denmark

• University of Aalborg
  Computer Vision and Media Technology Laboratory (CVMT)

• University of Copenhagen
  Image Group

• Luebeck University of Medicine
  Institute for Signal Processing

• Technical University of Denmark
  Dept of Mathematical Modeling Section for Image Analysis

See also the list of Nordic groups in computer vision.

Finland

• EULIST
  Integrated Machine Vision Cluster

• University of Oulu
  Computer Engineering Laboratory
  Information Processing Laboratory
  Machine Vision and Media Processing Group

France

• French Ministry of Defense (DGA)
  Geography, Imagery, and Perception Group

• INRIA
  INRIA home page INRIA vision home page
  CREATIS -- Centre for Research and Applications in Image and Signal Processing (Lyon)
  CRIN/INRIA Lorraine Image Synthesis and Analysis group
  Perception and Integration for Smart Spaces
  Projet PRIMA
  Surgery, Informatics and Robotics (Chirurgie, Informatique & Robotique)
  Rhone-Alpes - Models for Computer Vision
  Sophia Antipolis centre

• INSA Lyon
  Pattern Recognition and Vision

• Institut National des Telecommunications (INT)
  The ARTEMIS (Advanced Research and TEchniques for Multidimensional Imaging Systems) Project Unit
  

Germany

• Aachen University of Technology - Department of Technical Computer Science
  Specializes in human media technology and in knowledge based and trainable systems (computer vision and computational intelligence)

• Aachen University of Technology - Language Processing and Pattern Recognition (Computer Science VI)
  The object recognition group specializes in statistical image object recognition

• Berlin Technical University, Computer Science
  Computer Vision group

• University of Bielfeld
  Applied Computer Science Group
  Neuroinformatics Group

• University of Bonn
  CSD III Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition group
  Institute for Photogrammetry

• University of Bremen
  Center for Computing Technologies, Image Processing Group
  Institute for Neurophysics

• University of Cologne
  Pattern Recognition group

• DKFZ Heidelberg (German Cancer Research Centre)
  Medical and Biological Informatics

• Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
  Project-BLICK

• DLR (German Aerospace Research Establishment), Institute of Robotics and System Dynamics
  Robot Vision

• Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
  Multimedia Systems and Image Processing

• University of Freiburg
  Department of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

• Hamburg University
  Cognitive Systems group IMA Research Group

• University of Hannover
  Institut für Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung (TNT)
  Institute for Photogrammetry and GeoInformation

• University of Heidelberg
  Digital Image Processing Group

• TU Munich
  Image Understanding Group
  Robot Vision Group

• University of Jena
  Digital Image Processing group

• University of Koblenz
  Active Vision Laboratory
  Image Recognition laboratory

• University of Paderborn, Electrical Engineering
  GET Computer Vision laboratory

Greece

• National Technical University of Athens
  Computer Vision, Speech Communication and Signal Processing Group

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  Computer Vision and Image Processing group

Hungary

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  Image and Pattern Analysis Group

Israel

• Hebrew University
  Computer Vision Lab

• Technion IIT
  Center for Intelligent Systems
  Signal and Image Processing Lab
  Vision and Image Science Lab

Italy

• C.N.R.-- Institute of Clinical Physiology
  Computer Vision Group

• University of Bologna
  Biometric Systems Laboratory

• IEN
  Galileo Ferraris Computer Vision laboratory

• University Genova
  LIRA-Lab

• University of Messina
  Vision Lab

• Parma University
  Computer Vision

• University of Pavia
  Vision Lab

• Rovira i Virgili University
  Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision Group

• University of Udine
  Machine Vision laboratory

India

• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  Biomedical Lab

• Indian Statistical Institute, Machine Intelligence Unit
  Image processing,   Vision and Soft Computing Laboratory

Japan

• Niigata University
  Department of Information Engineering

• Ritsumeikan University
  Computer Vision Laboratory

Korea

See also the Korean research groups in Visual Information Processing.

• Hanyang University
  VIP & ICON Lab

• Jungang University
  Artificial Intelligence Lab

• Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
  Vision and Robotics Lab
  Cognitive Systems Lab
  Database and Multimedia Lab
  Virtual Reality Group

• Korea Institute of Geology Mining and Materials (KIGAM)
  Seismic Data Processing Lab

• Korea University
  Image Processing Laboratory
  Center for Artificial Vision Research
  Multimedia Communication Lab and Image Processing Lab

• Kyungpook National University
  Image System Engineering Lab (Written only in Korean)
  Signal Processing and System Engineering Lab (Written only in Korean)

• Medison Co.

• Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and
  Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)
  Image Processing Lab
  Computer Vision Laboratory

• Pusan National University
  Computer Vision Lab
  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Lab

• Sung Kyun Kwan University
  Geographic Information Systems Lab

Mexico

• Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
  Multimedia group

The Netherlands

• University of Amsterdam
  Autonomous Systems group Intelligent Sensory Information Systems (ISIS)

• Delft University
  Pattern Recognition group

• Leiden University
  Imaging and Multimedia

New Zealand

• Aukland University
  Tamaki Campus, Computer Vision Unit at Tamaki

• Industrial Research Ltd
  Machine Vision group

• University of Otago
  Computer Vision Research Group

Norway

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology Signal Processing

• Høgskolen i Stavanger
  Signal Processing group

Pakistan

• International Islamic University, Islamabad
  ms5_iiui

Portugal

• University of Algarve
  Vision Laboratory

• Institute of Systems and Robotics
  Computer Vision Laboratory

• Instituto Superior Tecnico
  VisLab -- Computer Vision Lab

• Universidade do Minho
  Image & Microscopy Lab (BioPSE group)

Russia

• AB Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics (KRINC)
  The Laboratory for Neural Network Modeling in Vision Research

• Minsk Image Processing and Recognition Laboratory

Peru

• University San Martin De Porres
  Digital Image Processing Group

Republic of Ireland

• Dublin City University
  Vision Systems group
  Machine Vision Group

• Trinity College Dublin
  Computer Vision and Robotics Group

• University College Dublin
  Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

South Africa

• University of Cape Town
  Image Processing laboratory

Spain

• Institute for Industrial Automation
  GPA Artificial Perception Group

• University Autonònoma de Barcelona
  Computer Vision Centre

• University of Granada
  Computer Vision Group
  Visual Information Processing group

• University Jaume I
  Computer Vision Group

• Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  Mathematical Analysis of Images

• Universidad Politecnica Madrid
  Vision research

• University of Zaragoza
  Aragon Institute of Engineering, Computer Vision Lab

Sweden

• Halmstad University
  Signal Analysis Group

• KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
  Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory

• Linköping University
  Division of Computer Vision

• Lund University
  Mathematical Imaging Group

Switzerland

• University of Bern
  Research Group on Computer Vision and AI

• EFPL (Federal Institue of Technology)
  Computer Vision laboratory
  Computer Graphics laboratory

• ETH Zürich
  Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group
  Image Science group

• University of Geneva
  Vision group

Taiwan

• Academia Sinica
  Laboratories of Intelligent Systems

Turkey

• Middle East Technical University
  Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Laboratory

United Kingdom

• University of Aberdeen
  Parallel and Image Processing Research Group

• Bangor University
  Neural and Vision Research Laboratory

• Queen's University of Belfast
  Centre for Image and Vision Systems

• Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland

• University of Birmingham
  Digital Systems and Vision Processing Group

• University of Brighton
  Applied Image Processing Research Unit

• University of Bristol
  Image Processing and Computer Vision Group

• Cardiff University
  Vision and Geometry Research Group

• University College London
  Physics department, Image Processing group

• University of Cambridge, Engineering
  Speech, Vision and Robotics group

• University of Edinburgh, Artificial Intelligence
  Machine Vision group

• University of Essex
  Computer Science, Computer Vision Research
  Electronic Systems Engineering
  Vision and Synthetic Environments Laboratory
  Multimedia Architectures Laboratory

• University of Exeter
  Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks Group

• Heriot-Watt University, Computing and Electrical Engineering
  Vision and Image Processing group
  Image Systems Engineering Laboratory

• University of Glasgow
  3D-MATIC Research Laboratory

• Kings College London
  Image Processing group
  Division of Imaging Sciences

• Leeds University
  Computer Vision Group

• University of Manchester
  Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering (ISBE)
  Neuro-image Analysis Centre (NIAC)

• University of Northumbria
  Institute for Image Data Research

• University of Nottingham
  Image Processing and Interpretation Research Group

• Oxford Brookes University
  Pattern Recognition Group

• University of Oxford
  Robotics Research group
  Active Vision Laboratory

• Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
  Vision research

• University of Plymouth
  Centre for Intelligent Systems

• University of Reading
  Department of Computer Science, Computational Vision Group

• Sheffield Hallam University
  Microsystems and Machine Vision Laboratory

• University of Southampton
  Image, Speech, and Intelligent Systems

• University of Surrey, Electronic and Electrical Engineering
  Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing group

• University of Sussex
  COGS Vision Research

• University of Ulster
  Computer Vision and Image Processing research group

• United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals
  Vision Research

• University of the West of England, Bristol
  Machine Vision Group

• University of York
  Computer Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Electronic Engineering, Media Engineering Group

United States of America

• Amerinex Applied Imaging, Inc.

• Boston University
  Image and Video Computing Research group

• University of California at Santa Barbara
  Vision Research Lab

• University of California at Berkeley
  Computer Vision group

• University of California at San Diego
  Computer Vision & Robotics Research Laboratory
  Visual Computing laboratory

• University of California at Irvine
  Computer Vision laboratory

• University of California, Riverside
  Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab)

• University of California at Santa Cruz
  Perceptual Science Laboratory

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles
  Computer Vision

• Caltech
  Vision group

• Carnegie Mellon University
  Calibrated Imaging Laboratory
  Digital Mapping Laboratory
  Interactive Systems Laboratory
  Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

• University of Central Florida
  Computer Vision laboratory

• UCLA
  Vision Lab

• University of Florida
  Center for Computer Vision and Visualization

• Colorado State University
  Computer Vision group

• Columbia University
  Automated Vision Environment (CAVE)
  Robotics group

• Cornell University
  Robotics and Vision group

• Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM)

• University of Georgia, Athens
  Visual and Parallel Computing Laboratory

• Harvard University
  Robotics Laboratory

• University of Illinois at Chicago
  Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory
  Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory (VISLab)

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Robotics and Computer Vision

• University of Iowa
  Division of Physiologic Imaging
  

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Machine Vision and Tracking Sensors group

• Khoral Research, Inc

• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
  Imaging and Collaborative Computing Group
  Imaging and Distributed Computing

• Lehigh University
  Image Processing and Pattern Analysis Lab
  Vision And Software Technology Laboratory

• University of Louisville
  Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab

• University of Maryland
  Computer Vision Laboratory

• University of Massachusetts
  Computer Vision
  Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics

• University of Miami
  Underwater Vision and Imaging Laboratory

• University of Michigan
  AI Laboratory

• Michigan State University
  Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory

• Microsoft Corporation
  VisionTechnology

• University of Missouri-Columbia
  Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory

• MIT
  AI Laboratory Computer Vision group
  Center for Biological and Computational Learning
  Media Laboratory, Vision and Modelling Group
  Perceptual Science group

• NEC
  Computer Vision and Image Processing

• University of Nevada
  Computer Vision Laboratory

• Notre-Dame University
  Vision-Based Robotics using Estimation

• Ohio State University
  Signal Analysis and Machine Perception Laboratory

• University of Pennsylvania
  GRASP laboratory
  Medical Image Processing group
  Vision Analysis and Simulation Technologies (VAST) Laboratory

• Penn State University
  Computer Vision

• Precision Digital Images

• Purdue University
  Robot Vision laboratory
  Video and Image Processing Laboratory (VIPER)

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
  Computer Science Vision

• University of Rochester
  Center for Electronic Imaging Systems
  Vision and Robotics laboratory

• Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey)
  Image Understanding Lab

• University of Southern California
  Computer Vision

• University of South Florida
  Image Analysis Research group

• Stanford Research Institute International (SRI)
  RADIUS -- Research and Development for Image Understanding Systems
  The Perception program at SRI's AI Center

• Stanford University
  Vision and Imaging Science and Technology

• SUNY at Stony Brook
  Computer Vision Lab

• University of Tennessee
  Imaging, Robotics and Intelligent Systems laboratory

• University of Texas, Austin
  Laboratory for Vision Systems

• University of Utah
  Center for Scientific Computing and Imaging
  Robotics and Computer Vision

• Virage, Inc.

• University of Virginia
  Computer Vision Research (CS)

• University of Washington
  Image Computing Systems Laboratory
  Information Processing Laboratory
  CVIA Laboratory

• University of West Florida
  Image Analysis/Robotics Research Laboratory

• University of Wisconsin
  Computer Vision group

• Vanderbilt University
  Center for Intelligent Systems

• Washington State University
  Imaging Research laboratory

• Wright-Patterson
  Model-Based Vision laboratory

• Wright State University
  Intelligent Systems Laboratory

• University of Wyoming
  Wyoming Image and Signal Processing Research (WISPR)

• Yale University
  Computational Vision Group
  School of Medicine, Image Processing and Analysis group