Wikipedia: Computer vision

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Subfield of Artificial intelligence where the idea is to get a computer to "understand" a scene. Frequent goals include:

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* Finding specific objects in the scene
* Identifying faces
* Mapping a scene to a three-dimensional model of the scene, so that (e.g.) a robot could navigate within the scene

* Detect, segment, locate and recognize certain objects in images, like (e.g.) human faces
* Tracking an object through an image sequence
* Mapping a scene to a three-dimensional model of the scene, so that (e.g.) a robot could navigate within the scene

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Interestingly, biological vision (cats have been extensively studied) seems to have lots of "hardware" assist, that is, special "circuitry" to find lines, etc. However, most computer vision has been done strictly with software.

Interestingly, biological vision? (cats have been extensively studied) seems to have lots of "hardware" assist, that is, special "circuitry" to find lines, etc. However, most computer vision has been done strictly with software.

Subfield of Artificial intelligence where the idea is to get a computer to "understand" a scene. Frequent goals include:

Detect, segment, locate and recognize certain objects in images, like (e.g.) human faces
Tracking an object through an image sequence
Mapping a scene to a three-dimensional model of the scene, so that (e.g.) a robot could navigate within the scene
Estimating the three-dimensional poses of humans and their limbs

A very difficult task, but one with a small number of commercial successes.