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Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field of computer science enabling computers to derive high level understanding from digital images or video through automated analysis. It seeks to automate tasks the human visual system performs, converting visual input into descriptions usable for decision making and action. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Origin Year
1966 1
Core Concern
Extracting three dimensional structure and meaning from two dimensional images for scene understanding, recognition and automated decision making. 1
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Computational photography spans computer vision as one of its constituent subject areas.

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David Marr, Pioneers
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DeepDream, Algorithms
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Fei-Fei Li, Pioneers
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Irwin Sobel, Pioneers
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Paul Viola, Pioneers
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Ramesh Jain, Pioneers
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Takeo Kanade, Pioneers
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Xilin Chen, Pioneers
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1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
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  • History
    In 1966, it was believed that this could be achieved through an undergraduate summer project, by attaching a camera to a computer and having it "describe what it saw".
  • Lead paragraph
    Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the form of decisions.
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    Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the form of decisions.
  • Associated With: Artificial Intelligence, History section
    In the late 1960s, computer vision began at universities that were pioneering artificial intelligence.
  • Associated With: Machine Learning, Recent work section
    Recent work has seen the resurgence of feature-based methods used in conjunction with machine learning techniques and complex optimization frameworks.
  • Associated With: Computer Graphics, Related fields section
    Computer graphics produces image data from 3D models, and computer vision often produces 3D models from image data.
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Wikipedia: Larry Roberts (computer scientist)
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Due to his Ph.D. thesis "Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids" he is known as the father of computer vision.
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Wikipedia: Robotics
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Robotics, Lead section
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Pattern recognition and computer vision can be used to track objects.
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Computational Photography (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Computational Photography, Lead section
Quote, Associated With: Computational Photography, Lead section
The definition of computational photography has evolved to cover a number of subject areas in computer graphics, computer vision, and applied optics.
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Michael J. Black (Wikipedia)
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computer vision, machine learning
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Xilin Chen (Wikipedia)
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machine vision for facial image analysis and sign language recognition
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Gunilla Borgefors (Wikipedia)
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specializing in image processing
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Nikolaos Bourbakis (Wikipedia)
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known for his work in image processing
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Wikipedia: Histogram equalization
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In image processing, Histogram equalization is a method of contrast adjustment
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Demetri Terzopoulos, Wikipedia
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directs the UCLA Computer Graphics & Vision Laborator
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David Marr (scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Marr integrated results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing.
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Structural similarity index measure (Wikipedia)
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SSIM is a perception-based model: it treats image degradation as a perceived change in structural information
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Irwin Sobel (Wikipedia)
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is a scientist and researcher in digital image processing.
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Non-local means (Wikipedia)
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Non-local means is an algorithm in image processing for image denoising.
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Anisotropic diffusion (Wikipedia)
Includes: Anisotropic diffusion, Lead
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anisotropic diffusion, also called Perona-Malik diffusion, is a technique aiming at reducing image noise
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Horn-Schunck method (Wikipedia)
Includes: Horn-Schunck Algorithm, Lead sentence
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Horn-Schunck method of estimating optical flow is a global method which introduces a global constraint of smoothness to solve the aperture problem (see Optical Flow for further description).
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Wikipedia: DeepDream
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DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google engineer Alexander Mordvintsev that uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedel
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Wikipedia: Detection Transformer
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Detection Transformer (DETR) is an object detection algorithm that applies transformers to identify and locate objects in images.
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Shih-Fu Chang - Wikipedia
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Shih-Fu Chang (Chinese: 張世富; pinyin: Zhāng Shìfù) is a Taiwanese computer scientist and electrical engineer who is the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor of Engineering at Columbia University, where he has also served as the dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science since 2022. Chang is noted for his research on multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, machine learning, and signal processing.
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Wikipedia: Fei-Fei Li
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Wikipedia: Yann LeCun
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Herbert Freeman, Wikipedia
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Patricia D. Lopez (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia: Andrew Zisserman
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Kristen Grauman (Wikipedia)
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Trevor Darrell (Wikipedia)
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Kyoung Mu Lee (Wikipedia)
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Watershed (image processing) (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia: Avinash Kak
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Wikipedia: Azriel Rosenfeld
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Wikipedia: Ramesh Jain
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Wikipedia: Jitendra Malik
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Narendra Ahuja, Wikipedia
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Wikipedia: Dorin Comaniciu
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Edward J. Delp - Wikipedia
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Block Truncation Coding Video Compression Image Processing Media Forensics
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Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb (Wikipedia)
Includes: Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb, Infobox: fields
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Computer vision Artificial intelligence Machine learning Discrete mathematics
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Wikipedia: Andrew Blake (computer scientist)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Andrew Blake (computer scientist), Infobox: fields
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Computer Vision Artificial intelligence, Machine Intelligence Visual Perception Robotics
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Sobel Operator (Wikipedia)
Includes: Sobel Operator Algorithm, Lead
Quote, Includes: Sobel Operator Algorithm, Lead
The Sobel operator, sometimes called the Sobel-Feldman operator or Sobel filter, is used in image processing and computer vision, particularly within edge detection algorithms where it creates an image emphasizing edges.
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Harris corner detector (Wikipedia)
Includes: Harris Corner Detector Algorithm, Lead
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The Harris corner detector is a corner detection operator that is commonly used in computer vision algorithms to extract corners and infer features of an image.
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Scale-invariant feature transform (Wikipedia)
Includes: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform Algorithm, Lead
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The scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) is a computer vision algorithm to detect, describe, and match local features in images, invented by David Lowe in 1999.
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Speeded up robust features (Wikipedia)
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In computer vision, speeded up robust features (SURF) is a local feature detector and descriptor, with patented applications.
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Takeo Kanade (Wikipedia)
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Takeo Kanade (金出 武雄, Kanade Takeo; born October 24, 1945 in Hyōgo) is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision.
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Alexei A. Efros (Wikipedia)
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He has contributed to the field of computer vision, and his work has been referenced in Wired, BBC News, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.
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Cordelia Schmid (Wikipedia)
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Cordelia Schmid (born 28 September 1967) is a computer vision researcher, currently head of the THOTH project team at INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation), Montbonnot, France.
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William T. Freeman (Wikipedia)
Includes: William T. Freeman, Lead
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He is known for contributions to computer vision.
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Paul Viola (Wikipedia)
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Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Zoox.
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Shree K. Nayar (Wikipedia)
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Nayar is an Indian American engineer and computer scientist known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision, computational imaging, and computer graphics.
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Berthold K.P. Horn (Wikipedia)
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Berthold Klaus Paul Horn (born December 8, 1943) is an American scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence and computer vision.
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Leonidas J. Guibas (Wikipedia)
Includes: Leonidas J. Guibas, Lead
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His research spans computational geometry, computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, with contributions including foundational data structures, the earth mover's distance for image retrieval, Metropolis light transport, and the PointNet architecture for deep learning on point clouds.
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