A Beginner’s Guide To Computer Vision
Computer Vision

Before we dive into the various CV techniques, let’s explore the human body part that computer vision is trying to emulate in terms of functionality.

Most humans don’t give much thought to vision; it’s a bodily function that automatically works with little to no deliberate influence.

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The human vision sensory system has developed over thousands of years to provide humans with the ability to extrapolate scenery meaning and context from the light that is reflected by objects in our 3-dimensional world, into our eyes.

Our eyes and brain can infer an understanding of environments from reflected light.

Our visual system equips us with the ability to determine the distance of objects, predict the texture of objects without directly touching, and identify all sort of patterns and events within our environment.

Computer Vision is the process by which we try to equip computer systems with the same capabilities that the human's visual sensory system possesses.

An appropriate definition for computer vision is as follows:

Computer Vision is the process by which a machine or a system generates an understanding of visual information by invoking one or more algorithms acting on the information provided. The understandings are then translated into decisions, classifications, pattern observation, and many more.

Our visual sensory system consists of the eyes and the brain, although we understand how each component of the eyes such as the cornea, lens, retina, Iris etc., we don’t fully understand how the brain works.

To create algorithms and systems that have the capability of extracting contextual information from images, causations of patterns have to be observed. Then solutions can be derived from the understanding of the causes and effect of specific patterns.

There are a lot of applications of Computer Vision, here are a few:
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