1.1 What is Computer Vision?

This is the first lecture of the category 'Computer Vision Material'.

First things first. We will learn about what is computer vision today.

 

 

 

What a person sees

What a person sees

 

What a computer sees

is different from what a computer sees.

 

Why are we able to interpret the image above?

 

 

 

The goal of computer vision is to give computers

human-level visual perception

and when possible

super-human perception!

 

 

 

Let's see (typical) Computer Vision Processing Pipeline.

 

* Key Research Questions

⊙ Acquisition : How can we capture light?

⊙ Representation : How can we encode information?

⊙ Inference : How can we decode information?

⊙ Application : How can we use it?

 

All equally important but focus can shift over time.

 

 

Important thing to note is that 'Computer Vision does not work except in certain situations/conditions.'

 

 

In next lecture, we will learn about the application of computer vision.