The full form of VIPER is Video and Image Processing Laboratory.

The Video and Image Processing Laboratory (VIPER), directed by Professor Edward J. Delp, is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to digitize, store, process, stream, and display digital images and video. VIPER supports research in areas such as the development of new image analysis techniques, new image and video compression methods, the development of new surveillance and detection methods, new media and wireless streaming technologies, and creating multimedia material for use in media indexing, storage, and retrieval.
Depending on the application, digitizers in the laboratory can produce digital video in a variety of formats including uncompressed CCIR video, motion JPEG, DV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.26X, and HDTV. Several high quality image scanners are available to support digital image acquisition at various resolutions. VIPER also has hundreds of digital cameras and more than 60 mobile telephones.