Intelligent vision technologies constitute an essential pillar for innovative safety and security solutions. The Intelligent Vision Systems (IVS) Area comprises the skills of more than 60 experts and all the Department’s image and video processing research.

The overall goal of the IVS Area is to transform the ever increasing amount of raw visual data into valuable information for future secure environments. Research and development spans the entire image processing chain, from the sensor through high-performance signal processing and image analysis to user interaction and visualization of results.

We focus on specific core competences:

• to enable advanced solutions for surveillance applications through object-specific detection, tracking and counting algorithms, in conjunction with (semi-) automatic localization and calibration in multicamera networks;
• to further develop 3D vision as an emerging robust visual sensing technology for manufacturing, autonomous and assistive systems; and
• to further strengthen our position as a leading technology supplier of high-performance vision systems for industrial applications such as print inspection and large-scale surface analysis.

Work in the IVS Area comprises the whole spectrum from strategic research up to the realization of prototypes and targets three major fields of application:

• Surveillance and video security
• Autonomous and assistive systems
• Industrial inspection and quality control

Research Fields and related research offer for industry (Research Services):

• New Image Processing Algorithms and Concepts
  
  • Intelligent Camera Networks
  • 3D Vision and Modelling
    

• New Image Sensor Technologies
  
  • New Sensor Technologies
  • High Performance Vision