MVPR

Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Group (MVPR) was established in 2000 and renamed Laboratory from 2009. Its most important goal is to perform high quality and internationally respected research on machine vision and pattern recognition. The laboratory also serves the national industry as an expert organisation, performs applied research and produces new engineers with MSc and PhD degrees specialised in machine vision and pattern recognition.

Research areas

• Machine vision and image processing - Konenäkö ja kuvankäsittely
• Pattern recognition - Hahmontunnistus
  
  
• Academic Topics
  • Object (category) detection, localisation, and recognition
  • Active and robot vision
  • Biomolecular computing
• Applied Topics
  • Forest and printing industry / metsäteollisuus ja painoteollisuus
    • Inspection of paper printability and surface properties
  • Medical image processing / lääketieteellinen kuvankäsittely
    • Retinal (fundus) image analysis
  • Security and surveillance / turvallisuus ja valvonta
  • Visual control systems / näkevät ohjausjärjestelmät

Research collaboration

The laboratory collaborates with many national and several international research groups. The most important international partners in co-operation are Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK, and Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden. The most important national partner is Color Research Group, University of Joensuu. The main forms of the collaboration are PhD student and post-doc research visits and research projects.

The laboratory also collaborates with several national research laboratories and institutes within its applied research projects.

Contact information

Postal:	Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Laboratory Department of Information Technology Faculty of Technology Management Lappeenranta University of Technology P.O.Box 20 FIN-53851 Lappeenranta Finland
Visiting:	Skinnarilankatu 34 FIN-53850 Lappeenranta Finland
Other:	Tel: +358 40 5867552 Fax: +358 5 6212899