Computer Vision

Computer vision was the first Chinese AI sector to reach global scale. SenseTime, Megvii, CloudWalk and Yitu, the so-called four dragons, built their businesses on face recognition and city surveillance, while Hikvision and Dahua dominate cameras. That market has matured and consolidated, and the growth has moved elsewhere: 3D reconstruction and scanning, spatial intelligence for robots, egocentric training data, medical imaging and remote sensing. Today most of the interesting Chinese computer vision work shows up inside embodied-AI, healthcare and world-model companies rather than in standalone vision vendors.

This page gathers our entries on that newer market: 3D scanning startups closing Series A rounds, human-scene interaction reconstruction frameworks released as open source by Shanghai AI Laboratory and its partners, a data company supplying millions of hours of first-person video to Western robotics labs, imaging models used before cancer surgery, and remote-sensing breakthroughs from Chinese universities. Amounts are converted to dollars and every entry cites its Chinese sources.