Main objectives: Computer Vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing in order to understand images. Understanding image is a real scientific challenge which presents a lot of open problems. Objectives of our Computer Vision Department are not do deal with all of these problems but to focus on:

• Realizing fundamental researches in visual feature extraction and object representation by introducing new types of feature and/or by combining with other types of feature (multimodal approach);
• Developing real vision based applications, particularly for Vietnam.

Thus the purpose of the Computer Vision Department is twofold. The first one aims assisting the development of Vietnam in areas such as tourism aid, heritage preservation, biodiversity conservation. The second one tries to catch up international level of research in image and video analysis. Research tasks and activities: the “Computer Vision” department’s activities are pursued following two main scientific motivations: