Thanks to Fred Chen's help. Fred is currently a PHD students in University of Alberta.   1. The idea I am passionate about is augmented reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality   2. The advanced man-machine interface lab, CS department of UofA. http://spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca/ammi/projects/ .    3. Some of the advanced CV labs (Following UC Berkeley, CMU, and Microsoft research)  http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/vision/  http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research_project_view.html?menu_id=261  http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/vision/   4. Computer vision(CV) has developed into a huge area with many directions.  This book has a comprehensive covering of the whole domain, "Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications". An electronic version is available here ( http://szeliski.org/Book/ ) for free.