The R&D Department at the Institute of Technology Computer Science aims at the acquisition and generation of new scientific and technical knowledge in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, ICT. The research activity is conducted in various research groups led by trained staff in Association with the Polytechnic University of Valencia, within the framework of the Joint Institute of Computer Technology. Aiming to achieve the level of scientific and technological needs, the projects are carried out in the ITI, in cooperation with individuals and institutions at regional, national, and European levels in the following fields:

• Computer Vision
• Biometrics
• Embedded and Distributed Systems
• Human Language Technologies
• Multimodal Interfaces
• Software Quality and Testing
• Operational Research; Optimization Problems
• Computer Graphics and Augmented Reality
• Processing of biomedical signals
• Industrial Informatics
• Network Communications
• Free / Open Source Software (FLOSS)