What is Computer Vision?

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Wikipedia defines it as this, "Computer vision is a field that includes methods for acquiring, processing, analysing, and understanding images and, in general, high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g., in the forms of decisions."

Computer Vision can also be thought of as mimicking human vision sensing and vision processing capabilities in Computers or Robotic applications. Sometimes this may be a crucial component of an Artificial Intelligence.

Applications of Computer Vision:

• Face Recognition

• Object Recognition

• Autonomous Vehicles

• Image Search

• Optical Character Recognition

• Robotics

• Remote Sensing

• Augmented Reality

• Automatic Target Recognition 

Listed above are some of the few examples of applications of Computer Vision. As this is a field of computer science in it's infancy, the possibilities of it's applications may be vast and nonetheless, it will be a major part of the upcoming future of intelligent machines.