Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation or approximation of human intelligence in machines. The goals of artificial intelligence include computer-enhanced learning, reasoning, and perception. AI is being used today across different industries from finance to healthcare.

Vision is a complex process that can understand the physical environment for different tasks in a fast and efficient way. Computer vision studies programmable algorithms that assign intelligence to computers such that computers can process and understand the images as the human vision does. While computer vision usually solves the problems from 2D to 3D, computer graphics studies problems in an inverse way, i.e., from 3D to 2D. In between computer vision and computer graphics, media encoding and decoding plays an important role in machine vision, since natural scenes usually contain millions of bits of information and neuron encoding is inevitable for a fast response in human vision system. The area of computer vision and media computing in computer science department consists of nine faculty members who cover all the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, image/video coding and transmission, and image/video processing.