Computer Vision / Speech Recognition I am not sure if the question is off topic but I need some input before I can finalize anything.

Actually to do my higher studies (in research) I wanted to make sure that I land my career in Digital Image / Signal Processing only. I have a strong background in Computer Application development. Now the Signal Processing course comes under Electronics And Communication Engineering / domain while Computer Vision &amp; Speech Recognition subjects comes under Computer Science.

I am not sure if these subjects are different or doing Computer Vision / Speech Recognition is nothing but DSP / DIP. Is MATLAB being used for Computer Vision / Speech Recognition software?

Should I opt for Electronics And Communication Engineering course or one from Computer Science? Kindly guide me appropriately
These fall under signal processing and mostly you will find electrical engineers who are working in domain of speech recognition. The thing with computer vision is that it overlaps between both field.But as you mentioned you only have option of Electronics/Communications, Electronics is not much related to these field ,well in communications, we all use statistical signal processing which is also useful in speech processing and computer vision.

If you can get into Electrical Engineering(signal processing) that would be much better but out of these two I would suggest go for Computer Science if you plan a future in these field.