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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. 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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Artificial Intelligence, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Computational Photography, Fields

Computational photography spans computer vision as one of its constituent subject areas.

Source Computational Photography (Wikipedia)
Computer Graphics, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Machine Learning, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition, Fields
Robotics, Fields
Source Wikipedia: Robotics

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Larry Roberts, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Larry Roberts (computer scientist)
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Computer Vision
Wikimedia Foundation
  • History section
    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.
  • 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'.
  • Introduction
    the extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information
  • 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)
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Larry Roberts, Early life and education section
Quote, Includes: Larry Roberts, Early life and education section
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
Quote, Associated With: Robotics, Lead section
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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