Abstract :
The Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is a 100-year old institution of higher technical education based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, in the heart of Transylvania, Romania. The University offers all levels of degree education in multiple technical fields, including Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, there are more than 20000 students enrolled with TUCN. The Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Research Center (IPPRRC) was set up in 1998 as an independent research team within the Computer Science Department of TUCN leveraging expertise in hardware design and software integration, signal and image processing and pattern recognition. Three years later, Prof. Nedevschi and a young research team started a fruitful cooperation with the research division of Volkswagen AG, Germany, in the field of stereovision applied to driving assistance. The initial research agreement SCABOR- Stereo CAmera Based Object Recognition, a one year contract, was followed by more than 12 research contracts, for more than 10 years, with multiple scientific and technologic achievements. Today, IPPRRC is a powerful research team consisting of four senior and 8 junior faculty members with eleven graduate students.
Keywords :
educational institutions; further education; image processing; pattern recognition; research and development; IPPRRC; Romania; Technical University of Cluj-Napoca; Transylvania; computer science department; degree education; driving assistance; hardware design; higher technical education; image processing research center; pattern recognition research center; signal processing; software integration; stereo vision;
