APPLICATIONS:
(1) Applications range from tasks such as industrial machine vision systems which, inspect bottles speeding by on a production line, to research into artificial intelligence and computers or robots that can comprehend the world around them.
- The computer vision and machine vision fields have significant overlap.
- Computer vision covers the core technology of automated image analysis which is used in many fields.
- Machine vision usually refers to a process of combining automated image analysis with other methods and technologies to provide automated inspection and robot guidance in industrial applications.
- In many computer-vision applications, the computers are pre-programmed to solve a particular task, but methods based on learning are now becoming increasingly common.
(2) Examples of applications of computer vision include systems for:
- Automatic inspection, e.g., in manufacturing applications;
- Assisting humans in identification tasks, e.g., a species identification system;
- Controlling processes, e.g., an industrial robot;
- Detecting events, e.g., for visual surveillance or people counting, e.g., in the restaurant industry;
- Interaction, e.g., as the input to a device for computer-human interaction;
- Modelling objects or environments, e.g., medical image analysis or topographical modelling;
- Navigation, e.g., by an autonomous vehicle or mobile robot; and
- Organizing information, e.g., for indexing databases of images and image sequences.