What is Computer Vision?

Computer Vision

Definition The AI field concerned with teaching machines to interpret and understand visual information from images and video. Core tasks include image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, and visual question answering.

In Depth

Computer vision made its modern leap with AlexNet in 2012, which demonstrated that deep convolutional neural networks outperform hand-crafted feature pipelines. Vision transformers (ViT) later applied the transformer architecture to image patches, matching or exceeding CNN performance. Computer vision powers autonomous vehicles, medical imaging diagnostics, facial recognition, and manufacturing quality control.

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