Computer vision

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence focused on enabling computers to identify, process, and understand visual data like images and videos. Key focus areas:

Image classification - Assign categories and labels to images
Object detection - Detect instances of objects within images
Segmentation - Partition images into distinct regions
Image generation - Create new images using models like GANs
Visual recognition - Identify specific people, objects, scenes
Motion analysis - Analyze movement in video
3D vision - Perceive and reconstruct 3D environments

Applications of computer vision include photography, diagnostics, surveillance, autonomous vehicles, augmented reality, and more.

Computer vision relies heavily on machine learning and deep neural networks like CNNs. Major innovations in computer vision have enabled computers to begin perceiving and reasoning about visual data at human-level performance.