The following is some information about the companies I know, not all, just what I know or what I'm interested in, in fact, there are far more than that.
Search Direction
Content-based image or video search is a hot topic of research for many search companies. To get into this field, you must have strong programming skills, a good background in image processing and pattern recognition. The requirements of high treatment is naturally good, and the current representative companies in this area are Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Baidu, each of which is very famous.
Medical image direction
Currently in the direction of medical equipment is mainly a few large enterprises in the competition, the head is not small, including Simens, GE, Philips and Kodak, mainly produces CT and MRI and other medical equipment. As the main function of medical equipment is imaging, necessarily involves the processing of images, doing image processing has a good chance to enter these companies. They have R & D centers in China, simens in Shanghai and Shenzhen, GE and Kodak are in Shanghai, Philips in Shenyang. As the medical market is a not fully developed market, and the price of a set of medical equipment is very expensive, so the treatment in these places are okay, the prospects are also good. There are also some such domestic enterprises such as Shenzhen Anke and Myriad
Computer vision and pattern recognition direction
I have not gone to research what companies are doing, but certainly a lot of them, such as fingerprint recognition, face recognition, iris recognition. There is a great direction is the license plate recognition, this I do know that there is a company Godwin intelligent transportation seems to do a very good look. At present, video surveillance is a hot issue, do tracking and identification can find a place in this direction.
Shanghai Farsight is located in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, in the vision and recognition to do a good job. I also know two companies in Beijing: Daheng and Lingyun, both of which use images as the main body of research and development.
Video direction
Generally speaking, universities or research institutes focus on the development and modification of standards and technological innovation, while companies focus on the hardware realization of encoding and decoding. Generally, these companies require that they are familiar with or proficient in MPEG, H.264, or AVS, so if you choose this direction, as long as you do a good job, you basically won't have to worry about your job. Since this is not the direction I'm interested in, I don't collect information about companies in this area, but I usually see it on various bbs or job boards.
Two companies I know of: Nokia and pixelworks
Others
In fact, in general, as long as it involves imaging or images, basically all of them want people in image processing. Let's say an imaging device needs to enhance or denoise the original image before outputting it, compress the image when storing it, and automatically analyze the image content after imaging, all of which are in the realm of image processing. Here's a list of some of the companies that are image-related or that have clearly stated that they need image-processing talent when hiring:
Shanghai Howell Integrated Circuits Co.
Sony
Tsinghua Tongfang
Samsung
All companies related to images (still or moving images) are an option. For example, digital cameras, microscope imaging, ultrasound imaging, industrial robotics control, monitors, TVs, remote sensing, etc. can be a job search.
Requirements:
1, foreign language. If you enter a foreign company, the importance of foreign language is self-evident. Generally the first round of interviews in foreign companies are oral interviews in English.
2, programming. This is especially important to C + +, a lot of companies are tested on the written test c + + knowledge.
3, professional level. If you want to find a job related to the specialty, the research experience during graduate school and published papers are more important.
4, the width of knowledge. I think during graduate school, in addition to doing their own research direction, broaden the knowledge base is also very helpful, of course, this knowledge base refers to image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, the wider the knowledge base, the more choices will be employed.
The image processing direction of the graduates of the employment surface is very broad, and treatment in the freshmen should be the upper middle class. In fact, or a sentence, the ability to determine everything. As long as the three years of graduate school is not in vain, there is no worry about not finding a good job. I wish all the friends who are in graduate school or will be in graduate school in the future can have a satisfactory job