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Computer Vision
Also Known As Machine Vision
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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.
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Core ConcernExtracting three dimensional structure and meaning from two dimensional images for scene understanding, recognition and automated decision making. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
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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.'
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
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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.
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Wikimedia FoundationHistory section, MIT Summer Vision ProjectQuote, History section, MIT Summer Vision Project
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'.
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
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the extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Machine Learning, Recent work sectionQuote, 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.
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Computer Graphics, Related fields sectionQuote, 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.
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.
Wikipedia: Robotics
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Pattern recognition and computer vision can be used to track objects.
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