Open up your webcam and look at its unblinking eye. If you catch a glimmer of intelligence don’t be surprised – computers are understanding more of what they see every day. Machine vision is a broad category of technologies that extract meaningful information from images so that computers and robots can perform their assigned duties. When your camera automatically detects your smile and places it in focus, that’s machine vision. When a flying robot weaves and dodges around obstacles to get to where it’s going, that’s machine vision too. This technology is already all around us and it’s getting better fast. via Singularity Hub
October 3, 2011
