作为一个机器视觉的从业者，对走在国外视觉领域前沿的机构需要有个清晰的了解。
有志往这个方向发展的学子和技术爱好者，可以关注他们最新的发展。
其中也包含很多计算机视觉相关的前沿研究机构。
一、研究群体
用来搜索国际知名计算机视觉研究组(CV Groups)：
国际计算机视觉研究组清单http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/info/groups.html
美国计算机视觉研究组清单 http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/info/groups.html#USA
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/vision.html或 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/vision.html
这是卡奈基梅隆大学的计算机视觉研究组的主页，上面提供很全的资料，从发表文章的下载到演示程序、测试图像、常用链接、相关软硬件，甚至还有一个搜索引擎。著名的有人物Tomasi， Kanade等。
卡内基梅隆大学双目实验室http://vision.middlebury.edu/stereo/
卡内基梅隆研究组http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-groups.html
还有几个实验室：
Calibrated Imaging Laboratory 图像
Digital Mapping Laboratory 映射
Interactive Systems Laboratory 互动
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center视觉自适应
http://www.via.cornell.edu/
康奈尔大学的计算机视觉和图像分析研究组，好像是电子和计算机工程系的。侧重医学方面的研究，但是在上面有相当不错资源，关键是它正在建设中，能够跟踪一些信息。
Cornell University——Robotics and Vision group
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/ 斯坦福大学计算机系主页
- http://white.stanford.edu/
- http://vision.stanford.edu/
- http://ai.stanford.edu/美国斯坦福大学人工智能机器人实验室
The Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) is the intellectual home for researchers in the Stanford Computer Science Department whose primary research focus is Artificial Intelligence. The lab is located in the Gates...
Vision and Imaging Science and Technology
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis/
主要研究：Brain Extraction Tool， Nonlinear noise reduction， Linear Image Registration， Automated Segmentation， Structural brain change analysis， motion correction， etc.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/prip/—密歇根州立大学计算机和电子工程系的模式识别--图像处理研究组，它的FTP上有许多的文章(NEW)。
美国密歇根州大学认知模型和图像处理实验室
The Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Lab faculty and students investigate the use of machines to recognize patterns or objects. Methods are developed to sense objects， to discover which...http://www.cse.msu.edu/rgroups/prip/
http://pandora.inf.uni-jena.de/p/e/index.html
德国的一个数字图像处理研究小组，在其上面能找到一些不错的链接资源。
柏林大学 http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de/
德国波恩大学视觉和认识模型小组
Computer Vision Group located within the Division III of the Computer Science Department in the University of Bonn in Germany. This server offers information on topics concerning our computer vision http://www-dbv.informatik.uni-bonn.de/
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~sean/CVCC.dir/home.html
CVIP(used to be CVCC for Computer Vision and Cluster Computing) is a research group focusing on cluster-based computer vision within the Spiral Architecture.
http://cfia.gmu.edu/
The mission of the Center for Image Analysis is to foster multi-disciplinary research in image， multimedia and related technologies by establishing links between academic institutes， industry and government agencies， and to transfer key technologies to help industry build next generation commercial and military imaging and multimedia systems.
英国的Bristol大学的Digital Media Group在高级图形图像方面不错。主要就是涉及到场景中光线计算的问题，比如用全局光照或是各种局部光照对高动态图的处理，还有近似真实的模拟现实环境 (照片级别的)，还有用几张照片来建立3D模型(人头之类的)。另外也有对古代建筑模型复原。http://www.cs.bristol.ac.uk/Research/Digitalmedia/
而且根据Times全英计算机排名在第3， 也算比较顶尖的研究了
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/IAP/zimage.htm
这是一个侧重图像分析的站点，一般。但是提供一个Image Analysis环境---ZIMAGE and SZIMAGE。
麻省理工视觉实验室MIT http://groups.csail.mit.edu/vision/welcome/
AI Laboratory Computer Vision group
Center for Biological and Computational Learning
Media Laboratory， Vision and Modeling Group
Perceptual Science group
UC Berkeley http://0-vision.berkeley.edu.ilstest.lib.neu.edu/vsp/index.html
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu.ilste ... n/vision_group.html
加州大学伯克利分校视觉实验室David A. Forsyth：http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daf/
UCLA(加州大学洛杉矶分校) http://vision.ucla.edu/视觉实验室
英国牛津的A.Zisserman：http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~az/ 机器人实验室
美国南加州大学智能机器人和智能系统研究所University of Southern California， Los Angeles
IRIS is an interdepartmental unit of USC's School of Engineering with ties to USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Members include faculty， graduate students， and research staff associated with... http://iris.usc.edu/ Computer Vision 实验室
美国南加州大学计算机视觉实验室介绍：
Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Southern California is one of the major centers of computer vision research for thirty years. they conduct research in a number of basic and applied are...http://iris.usc.edu/USC-Computer-Vision.html
英国约克大学高级计算机结构神经网络小组
The Advanced Computer Architecture Group has had a thriving research programme in neural networks for over 10 years. The 15 researchers， led by Jim Austin， focus their work in the theory and applicati...http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/arch/neural/
瑞士戴尔莫尔感知人工智能研究所
IDIAP is a research institute established in Martigny in the Swiss Alps since 1991. Active in the areas of multimodal interaction and multimedia information management， the institute is also the leade...http://www.idiap.ch/
英国萨里大学视觉，语言和信号处理中心
The Centre for Vision， Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) is more than 60 members strong， comprising 12 academic staff， 18 research fellows and more than 44 research students. The activities of the ...http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Research/VSSP/
美国阿默斯特马萨诸塞州立大学计算机视觉实验室
The Computer Vision Laboratory was established in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts in 1974 with the goal of investigating the scientific principles underlying the con...http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts——Computer Vision Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
美国芝加哥伊利诺伊斯大学贝克曼研究中心智能机器人和计算机视觉实验室
Includes the following groups: Professor Seth Hutchinson's Research Group Professor David Kriegman's Research Group Professor Jean Ponce's Research Group Professor Narendra Ahuja's Research Gro...http://www-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu/
Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory
Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory (VISLab)
英国伯明翰大学计算机科学学校视觉研究小组
The vision group at the School of Computer Science (a RAE 5 rated department) performs research into a wide variety of computer vision and image understanding areas. Much of this work is performed in ...http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/vision/
微软研究院机器学习与理解研究小组 / 计算机视觉小组
The research group focuses on the development of more advanced and intelligent computer systems through the exploitation of statistical methods in machine learning and computer vision. The site lists ...http://research.microsoft.com/mlp/
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/vision/
微软公司的文献：http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs
微软亚洲研究院：http://research.microsoft.com/asia/，值得关注Harry Shum， Jian Sun， Steven Lin， Long Quan(兼职HKUST)etc.
瑞典隆德大学数学系视觉组：http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklth/personal/andersp/
感觉国外搞视觉的好多是数学系出身，大约做计算机视觉对数学要求很高吧。
澳大利亚国立大学：http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~hartley/
美国北卡大学：http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marc/
法国INRIA：http://www-sop.inria.fr/odyssee/team/ 由Olivier.Faugeras领衔的牛人众多。
比利时鲁汶大学的L.Van Gool： www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/psi/visics/
据说在这个只有中国一个小镇大小的地方的鲁汶大学在欧洲排行top10，名列世界top100，还出了几个诺贝尔奖，视觉研究也很强.
美国明德http://vision.middlebury.edu/stereo/
以下含有非顶尖美国学校研究组，没有链接(个别的上面已经提到)，供参考。
Amerinex Applied Imaging， Inc.
Boston University
Image and Video Computing Research group
University of California at Santa Barbara加州大学芭芭拉分校
Vision Research Lab
University of California at San Diego加州大学圣迭戈分校
Computer Vision & Robotics Research Laboratory
Visual Computing laboratory
University of California at Irvine加州大学欧文分校，加州南部一城，在圣安娜东南，
Computer Vision laboratory
University of California， Riverside加州大学河滨分校
Visualization and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (VISLab)
University of California at Santa Cruz
Perceptual Science Laboratory
Caltech (加州理工)
Vision group
University of Central Florida
Computer Vision laboratory
University of Florida
Center for Computer Vision and Visualization
Colorado State University
Computer Vision group
Columbia University
Automated Vision Environment (CAVE)
Robotics group
University of Georgia， Athens
Visual and Parallel Computing Laboratory
Harvard University（哈佛）
Robotics Laboratory
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 Miami
Underwater Vision and Imaging Laboratory
University of Michigan密歇根
AI Laboratory
Michigan State University 密歇根州立
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) 密歇根大学有汽车车身检测研究
University of Missouri-Columbia
Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory
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 宾夕法尼亚大学
Computer Vision
Precision Digital Images
Purdue University普渡大学
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
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
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 http://www.cs.yale.edu/
School of Medicine， Image Processing and Analysis group
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