Intro

Question 1

What is vision?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Goals of computer vision

Answer 2

Make useful decisions about objects based on senses images
Meaningful Scene description of images
That is not cluttered
IMAGE UNDERSTANDING

Question 3

Problems that arise with computer vision

Answer 3

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

Question 4

OCR

Answer 4

Optical character recognition

Processing text from a scanned image

Question 5

Face detection

Answer 5

Can do things such as age recognition and smile detection

Question 6

How many years of computer vision?

Answer 6

60 starting in the 1960s with image processing and pattern recognition