Computer vision is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the machine interpretation of images. Roughly speaking, it is about giving machines an understanding of environments and objects.
According to Wikipedia, the term “computer vision” means “computer-based vision” (or “computer vision” for short). The article adds that the term “machine vision” is also used synonymously in the English-speaking world, whereby this term specifically emphasises applications in an industrial environment. It goes on to explain: “Typical tasks of computer vision are object recognition and measuring the geometric structure of objects as well as movements (external movement, own movement).”
Numerous ground-breaking inventions have been made in the field of computer vision, including facial recognition, object recognition, Instagram filters, object localisation (for example for robotic arms in factories) and technologies for self-driving cars.
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