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Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 07:15

The URJC Master in Artificial Vision receives the Euro-Inf seal

An ANECA report grants the postgraduate certificate, intended for bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science evaluated according to standards of quality, relevance, transparency, recognition and mobility in the European Higher Education Area. 

Albert Rose

The Master in Artificial Vision of the Rey Juan Carlos University has been recognized with the Euro-Inf seal, an international quality certificate for the university academic field, promoted by EQANIE (European Quality Assurance Network for Informatics Education). 

This is confirmed by a provisional report from ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation), the competent institution to grant the seal in Spain. The postgraduate degree trains its students in the professional application of artificial vision, such as video surveillance, visual control of rooms or the analysis and processing of medical images, among others. 

For José Miguel Buenaposada, director of the master's degree, this seal is "an accolade" to the quality of the title. “The external evaluation process has all the actors involved: students, teachers or companies. The fact of passing all the evaluations offers an objective view that the title meets quality criteria”. 

Professor Buenaposada recounts that the Master's Degree in Artificial Vision emerged in the 2010/2011 academic year, when a group of professors from the areas of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Robotics, all of them related to the study of image processing, observed that in Madrid there was no no master of this type. "We wanted to train vision engineers to promote an area that was becoming very important in companies." 

Master's profile 

The student profile of the Master in Computer Vision is that of a graduate in Engineering or Science, with some knowledge of computer programming. "Based on this knowledge, what we do in the master's degree is to train a vision engineer who will analyze images and videos to solve a problem within the industry," says Dr. Buenaposada.  

The theoretical and practical training is supported by the use of programming systems or techniques such as 'deep learning'. In recent years, this profile has been in high demand in companies as a result of the emergence of artificial intelligence and its application to problems in which it was previously impossible to intervene. 

“There has been a great interest in the industry and that has led many companies to launch themselves to solve image processing problems, such as video surveillance, augmented reality or autonomous driving, thanks to the application of cameras and sensors in cars. ”, concludes the teacher.