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Computer Vision

AI field focused on enabling computers to interpret and understand visual information.

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Definition

Computer Vision is a field of AI that trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world using digital images, videos, and deep learning models.

  • **Key Tasks:**
  • Image Classification: What's in this image?
  • Object Detection: Where are objects in the image?
  • Segmentation: Pixel-level classification
  • Face Recognition: Identifying individuals
  • OCR: Reading text from images

Technologies: - Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) - Vision Transformers (ViT) - YOLO (You Only Look Once) - CLIP (Connecting text and images)

Applications: - Autonomous vehicles - Medical imaging - Security and surveillance - Augmented reality

Examples

Tesla Autopilot uses computer vision to understand the road environment.

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