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The Computer Vision Center is a non-profit research centre with independent legal status, established in 1995 by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Its activity covers computer-vision research, technology transfer to industry and the training of researchers, and it is accredited as a CERCA centre and a TECNIO unit.
Alongside its research programme the centre maintains open-source autonomy software, most notably the CARLA driving simulator, which it co-hosts with the Embodied AI Foundation. Around that platform it offers consortium membership, custom software development, premium support and consulting to industrial and research users.
Demand for computer-vision research and for validated autonomy software keeps growing as vehicles, robotics and inspection systems add perception requirements. Public research funding and industrial partnerships remain the main routes by which this work is financed in Europe.
The centre sits in that market as a non-profit intermediary that both performs research and transfers it, and its open-source platforms give it visibility beyond what a purely academic lab would reach. As simulation and perception benchmarks tighten, organisations that host shared platforms and reference datasets are positioned to set the terms others test against.
The centre combines an academic research base with an industrial technology-transfer mandate, which lets it build long-lived open platforms rather than one-off prototypes. Its accreditation as a CERCA centre and a TECNIO unit gives partners a recognised framework for joint projects and funded collaborations.
Its open-source autonomy software, chiefly CARLA, gives the centre a distribution channel that reaches research and industrial users directly, while the surrounding consortium model and paid support services turn that reach into sustained maintenance. A long record of spin-off formation provides a further route for transferring research into commercial products.
