HISTORY OF RISE WITHIN THE SAMARA STATE AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY

Introduction
The Image Processing Systems Institute was originated in the interior of Samara State Aerospace University (former Aviation Institute) in the middle of 70s. At that time, the research group of V.A. Soifer was mainly consisted of under-graduate and post-graduate students. It is this group which composed the core of the Chair and the Laboratory of "Technical Cybernetics" established in 1982. Close cooperation of the Chair with Institutes of the Academy of Sciences facilitated the organization of the subsidiary Samara Branch of the Central Design Bureau of Unique Instrumentation of the RAS in 1988, which was reorganized in 1993 into the IPSI RAS with 50 employees. The IPSI consists of two departments including four laboratories and an experimental design bureau. Activities of the IPSI RAS is mainly focused on solving fundamental and applied problems of Computer Optics, image processing, and image recognition. The IPSI RAS takes an active part in a number of state scientific & technical programs and international projects, and works by contracts with Russian and foreign companies. The IPSI RAS has broad scientific relations with leading universities and research Institutions of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the USA, Germany, Italy, and other countries.