Search Direction
Content-based image or video search is a hot research topic for many search companies. To get into this field, you must have strong programming skills and 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. Domestic also have some of these companies such as Shenzhen Anke and Myriad
Computer vision and pattern recognition direction
I have not gone to research what companies are doing, but certainly many, 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.