Current activities of the SP&PR department are concentrated on R&D in the areas of:

• Image, Video and Speech Analysis and Recognition;
• Content Based Image/Object Retrieval (CBIR/CBOR);
• Biometric based identification;
• Neural Networks for Classification, Computer assisted Medical Diagnostics, etc.

The Department has long-term interests in the technological development of information systems using Image Processing and Recognition.

The Department actively participates in European and National R&D projects and presents the results in international and national journals and conferences.

The Department is co-organizer of the annual international conference CompSysTech (2000-2011).