Computer Vision, a Branch of Artificial Intelligence on Personal Devices
Author: Michael
Computer vision (CV) is a process (and a branch of computer science) that involves capturing, processing and analyzing real-world images and video to allow machines to extract meaningful, contextual information from the physical world. Today, computer vision is the foundation and a key means of testing and exploiting deep-learning models that are propelling the evolution of artificial intelligence toward ubiquitous, useful and practical applications. A lot of advancements are expected to occur between 2018 and 2020.
But…what is computer vision?
Back in 1955, researchers assumed they could describe the processes that make up human intelligence and automate them, creating an artificial intelligence (AI). Despite being in a time before 1st demonstration of integrated circuits (IC) in 1958, or 1st commercially available microprocessor by Intel in 1971, or the term graphic processing units (GPU) popularized by Nvidia in 1999, serious researches began and one of the most notable “AI” researches started along three distinct lines: replicating the eye (to see); replicating the visual cortex (to describe); and replicating the rest of the brain (to understand). Along these three distinct lines, various degrees of progresses have been made: