What is Computer Vision – Introduction
Given the image below if humans are enquired to list the objects and entities present within, they will come up with a list of different words such as car, boy, owl, cage, wipers and so on without thinking a lot. Additionally, when asked to describe the picture they would easily say that it is a clip from the famous Hollywood movie Harry Potter. These are two very simple tasks that any person or a child with an average level of intelligence can accomplish. However, in the background a very complex process takes place. The human vision not only involves our eyes and the visual cortex but also the mental model of the objects, understanding of the concepts and experiences that we achieve through numerous interactions that we make with different entities of this world in our lives. Camera shots can snap pictures of resolutions and details that much farther outperforms the human vision system. Computers can also detect and measure the color differences with very high accu...