Intro Flashcards
1
Q
What is vision?
A
The ability to see and sense qualities such as color, luminosity, shape, and size through a process of light rays entering your eyes and being transformed into electric signals to your brain
2
Q
Goals of computer vision
A
Make useful decisions about objects based on senses images
Meaningful Scene description of images
That is not cluttered
IMAGE UNDERSTANDING
3
Q
Problems that arise with computer vision
A
Loss of info while sensing objects Missing data (occlusion) Appearance change with viewpoint Ambiguity (look a like) Confounding effects (light manipulates image) Variable in shape (chairs are diff shapes) Blurriness Busy images
4
Q
OCR
A
Optical character recognition
Processing text from a scanned image
5
Q
Face detection
A
Can do things such as age recognition and smile detection
6
Q
How many years of computer vision?
A
60 starting in the 1960s with image processing and pattern recognition
