GPI-RV original research interest was image processing and analysis, being the main research line of the group for several years. Around image processing several research projects were carried out in these last years.

In 2005, GPI became GPI-RV, a new research line on Virtual and Augmented reality was started. As a first step, GPI-RV set up a laboratory for VR/AR research and began to develop their first VR works.

Virtual and Augmented Reality is our latest research line. We began working on this in late 2005 and now we have a working VR/AR laboratory and several on-going projects on this topic.

Among the several applications of VR technologies, we are specially interested Industrial Design applications and the integration of these technologies within companies product cycles, from design to maintainability.

Our first works in this area are oriented to provide training solutions on virtual environments allowing companies to train personal even when the system they will work on does not exists. Implementation of such a class of systems implies several technologies:

· Manipulation of CAD models to be used in an interactive way
· Addition of extra information to allow realistic simulation of the systems
· Render of complex structures
· Physical Simulation and characterisation of each item in the model
· Friendly and realistic interfaces between systems and humans

So, several subareas of interest arise from this main research line, running from rendering technologies to Human Machine Interface, going through definition of standards to manage all the additional information required for this kind of applications.

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Image processing and analisys has been the main research line of the group since its creation in early 90s. Our main interest in this area is image recognition, that is, using image to locate and recognise things.

Direct application of this line is artificial vision and the set up of optical interfaces for computer systems.

In this field we work closely with the EVA Group here in the University of Vigo.

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Other of our main research lines is the application of modern technologies to fishing industry in Galicia. Fishing is a strong economical sector in our region and there is a big technological gap on it.

We are researching the application of image processing and computer systems to build tools that make navigation and location of regions of interest for fishers easier, providing solutions to get realistic representations of sea depth, GPS technology to automatic navigation and Geo-referencing of different kind of data.

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