The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s leading university and is the only one ranked among the world’s top 200 universities by the Times Higher Education World Rankings of Universities. It is also the highest ranked New Zealand university.

The University of Auckland's Department of Computer Science, the country's largest, most diverse, and most accomplished. Our staff have received major national and international recognition for research and teaching.

Intelligent Vision System research team is based at the University of Auckland. It's research mandate covers the investigation of image processing, image segmentation, model extraction from images, recognition tasks, image processing with stereo and monocular camera system and many more topics.

The Ecole Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr is the foremost French military academy.

With more than 250 staff in research laboratories at INSA-Rennes, University of Rennes 1 and Supelec Rennes, IETR offers a high level of expertise to the industrial and scientific communities. The institute has some 250 lecturer-researchers, engineers, Ph.D students and admin staff. The last evaluation of IETR by the AERES (National Agency of Research Assessment) has resulted in an "A" note with several quality points underlined, such as its local, national and international visibility in the information and communication sciences. Between 2006 and 2009, 118 PhD had been defended and 41 post-doctorate students had been hosted. Activities with Industrial partners are very high and are still increasing (3.5 million Euros in 2009) showing a real interest from the industry.

The thematic groupe SMAI-SIGMA (Signal - Image - Geometry - Modelisation - Approximation) grew from the AFA association created in 1989. It promotes the use of function approximation, modelisation, geometric design, multi-resolution analysis, data smoothing, meshing, signal processing, image analysis, tomography, and scientific visualization.