Computer Vision

Goal

• Create a model of the real world from from noisy and ambiguous images
• Automatically deduce useful information (structure and properties) about a 3D scene from its 2D projections

Applications

• Medical diagnosis using CAT scan
• Product quality control and assembly line automation
• Autonomous navigation of terrain by mobile robots, airplanes, and automobiles
• Satellite image understanding (weather forecasting, agriculture and forestry)
• Espionage
• Security
• Human computer communication using gestures

Relationship to Other Fields

• Image processing
• Computer graphics
• Pattern recognition
• Artificial intelligence
• Psychophysics

Role of Knowledge