Introduction

In recent years, intelligent recognition and processing have become highly regarded cutting-edge technologies. To introduce academic research achievements to relevant domestic manufacturers and enhance the competitiveness of domestic computer vision-related technologies, since 2000, the Computer Vision Research Center of National Chiao Tung University has been gathering top professors in relevant fields from universities and research institutions in Taiwan to develop key technologies.

Over the past twenty years, the achievements have been abundant, establishing itself as the largest in Taiwan and leading globally in the “video security technology repository” and “computer vision talent pool.” The center has executed numerous national large-scale projects. Among them, the “Vision-Based Intelligent Environment Construction (VBIE) Project,” subsidized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs since May 2004 (eight years in two phases), is the largest-scale project led by this center. It has extended to develop over 200 core technologies and approximately 100 transferable technologies. Those technologies have been transferred to nearly a hundred manufacturers. Furthermore, the center actively engaged in international cooperation and exchanges to enhance Taiwan’s research and development capabilities in intelligent surveillance. It has become an international center for computer vision and security surveillance research and development. The detailed achievements outlined on the “Center Achievements” webpage. Moreover, the center was honored with the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ “Third National Industrial Innovation Award – Annual Science and Technology Model Award” on October 9, 2013, being the only award-winning unit among academic scientific and technological projects.

Furthermore, to expand the scope of research and development, in addition to the main members, the center has also extensively invited professors and scholars to participate, actively proposing large-scale research projects, while enhancing industry-academia cooperation and expanding the scope of technology transfer to achieve the goal of sustainable operation.