I major in communications engineering, you said both I have involved, and embedded closely linked to the signal processing is certainly more, because I personally think that the employment of image processing is still good. First of all, the image can be viewed as two-dimensional, three-dimensional or higher-dimensional signals, in this sense, image processing is the entire signal processing inside the employment situation is the best, because you not only want to master the basic knowledge of (one-dimensional) signal processing, but also want to master the image processing (two-dimensional or high-dimensional signal processing) knowledge. Secondly, image processing is the basis of computer vision and video processing, mastered the basic knowledge of image processing, employment can be developed in these directions. Most of the current pattern recognition is also image pattern recognition. In practical applications, much of the information collected is image information, such as fingerprints, barcodes, faces, irises, vehicles and so on. Speaking of applications, we must not forget the medical image of this piece, if you have a background in medical image processing, to some medical equipment companies or medical software companies is also a good choice. Image processing requirements for programming is relatively high, if the programming is very good, of course, employment is also a choice of direction, not necessarily limited to the direction of the image.
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 enterprises in China such as Shenzhen Anke and Myriad