At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb the first workshop of a new EU project “VISTA - Computer Vision Innovations for Safe Traffic" was held on 20th June 2013. The coordinator of the project is the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in partnership with the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering. Project leader prof. dr. sc. Sven Lončarić presented the project objectives. The participants of the workshop were companies that are a part of the Croatian automotive sector.
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VISTA - A new EU project at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb the first workshop of a new EU project “VISTA - Computer Vision Innovations for Safe Traffic" was held on 20 June 2013. The workshop was attended by Croatian businessmen from the automotive sector and scientists in the field of computer vision. The conference was opened by the vice dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing prof. dr. sc. Mislav Grgić, followed by the president and vice-president of Croatian competitiveness clusters automotive sector, PhD. Zlatko Hodak and Branko Mihalić and vice president of the Industry of the Croatian Chamber mr. sc. Zoran Barišić. Project leader prof. dr. sc. Sven Lončarić presented the objectives of the project VISTA after which the companies in the automotive sector presented their objectives and future plans. What followed was a series of presentations in which research and development facilities of the Centre of Excellence for Computer Vision at the University of Zagreb was presented. A brief discussion has shown great interest and need for the cooperation of scientists and businessmen for technology transfer and development of new products based on knowledge.
VISTA is financed from the funds of the EU pre-accession funds, under the IPA component IIIc Operational Programme for Regional Competitiveness conducted by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The total project value is 685,265.45 EURO of which the EU share is 573,841.29 EURO. The coordinator of the project is the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in partnership with the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering.
The project started in April 2013 and will last for two years. The main objectives of the project is strengthening the research capacity of the two partner universities, strengthening the cooperation with SMEs in Croatian automotive sector with the goal of technology transfer, strengthening of commercial capacities in partner universities, transfering existing applications of computer vision developed in universities to small and medium-sized enterprises and the development of new applications and products with high added value in cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises in the automotive industry.
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