The group was founded by Prof. Vladimir Crnojević in 2006 at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia and it consists of several research scientists, PhD students and technical staff. The URSUS group’s research activities are mainly in the area of image processing and analysis.

The URSUS group is actively participating in FP7 and EUREKA European projects. The FP7 AgroSense project started on 1st May 2008, and its focus is on research and development of modern technological bases that significantly boost the agriculture production in West Balkan region. The URSUS group is working on development of new IT services that can rapidly collect and process valuable information relevant to crop production, and deliver it to farmers and other professionals interested in this kind of information. The URSUS group’s partners in this project are University of Florence, Italy, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Slovenia, Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Serbia, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Provincial Secretariat of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia. For more information on this project, please look under the Projects.

EUREKA VICATS project started on 1st October 2007, and it aims at developing novel robust real-time video content analysis algorithms for video surveillance and traffic monitoring with a special focus on video surveillance of tunnels and bridges. The URSUS group’s partners in this project are University of Ghent, Belgium, Traficon N.V., Belgium, University College Ghent, Belgium and Fitis-Ju, Serbia. For more information on this project, please look under the Projects.