Research in the Area of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis at the Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Its Predecessors.

This paper provides a short survey of the main direction of activity of the Federal Research Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FRC CSC RAS) in the areas concerning the topics of the journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. The FRC CSC RAS was founded in December 2014 through the reorganization of the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIP RAS) (by including the Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISA RAS) and the Dorodnycin Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (DCC RAS)). Section 1 reviews the activity of these institutes before their merger. Section 2 studies the work performed after 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]