Laboratories

I - Classical Active Vision

The most famous group in the domain are the following :

• In United States & Canada :
• The Artificial Intelligence group, Yale University, lead by Gregory Hager and Drew Mc Dermott.
• The Vision and Autonomous Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University, where Eric Krotkov works.
• Telemanipulation and Hand-Eye Coordination group, Rochester University, lead by Dana Ballard and Christopher Brown.
• The Rodney Brooks group at the Massachussets Institute of Technology is working on through the vision system for the drone Cog.
• Ian Horswill, ex-student of Rodney Brooks, create active vision miniaturised systems at the Institute for the Learning Sciences, where the Intelligent Action and Perception lab also sits down.
• The Binocular Vision for Active Vision group in Penn Uinversity, lead by Brian C. Madden.
• The Artificial Perception Lab is at the Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, lead by Prof. Frank P. Ferrie.
• In Europe,
• The project Vision As a Process consolidates numerous laboratories in this area in order to build efficient binocular platforms :
• The Image Analysis Group of Aalborg University, Danemark, project leader, which is lead by Erik Granum.
• The Computational Vision and Active Perception group of the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden (KTH).
• The Vision, Speech and Signal Processing group in University Of Surrey.
• The LEIBNIZ laboratory (ex-LIFIA) INPG, France and the Integration of Active Perception and Mobile Robotics Group(Gravir), lead by James L. Crowley.
• The laboratory LIRA-DIST, University of Genova, Italy, hosted in particular Giulio Sandini and Enrico Grosso.
• The laboratory LiTH, University of Linköping, Sweden.
• The project RobotVis, INRIA, France, where Thierry Viéville works.
• The Vision and Geometry group, Cardiff University.
• The Active Vision, Oxford University, with David Murray, Ian Reid, Kevin Bradshaw, Paul Sharkey and Phil McLauchlan.
• The Computational Vision and Image Processing, Defence Research Agency, Great Britain.
• The Computational Vision Laboratory, Paderbon University, Germany, lead by Georg Hartmann.
• In Japan : 
• The Ohnishi Laboratory, Nagoya.
• The Shirai Laboratory, Osaka.
• The Active Vision Group, Uchida.
• The Electrotechnical  Tsukuba Laboratory.
• Elsewhere :
• The Robotics and Control Laboratory, Technion, Israël.

II - Bio-Inspired Approaches

Here is some of the lab looking at the active vision problem not as a pure control problem but are searching efficient solution from biological vision :

• In Europe :
• The Analog VLSI for Perception Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, lead by Eric Vittoz,
• The Institute of Neuroinformatics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, lead by Rodney Douglas.
• The Institut of Neuroinformatics, Bonn, Allemagne.
• The Electronic Eye, Marburg, Germany, aims at building Active Vision System with Neural Networks Biologically Motivated.
• The Neuro-Biology Laboratory (LNB), Marseille, France, where Nicolas Franceschini works.
• In United States :
• The Koch Lab, California Institute of Technology, lead by Chistopher Koch.
• The Biologically Motivated Vision on VLSI Group, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, lead by Ralph Etienne-Cummings.
• The Perceptual Science Groupe, Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), lead by Richard Whitman.
• Elsewhere :
• The Bioinspired Vision Group, Australian National University, lead by M.V. Srivinasan.

III - Biology Laboratories

• The Eye Movement Center, Oxford University.
• The Psychology Departement, Sheffield University, where Paul Dean and John Mayhew works.
• Basal Ganglia Group, University of Southern California, lead by Michael Arbib.