What is Computer Vision
What is computer vision?
Computer vision is a multidisciplinary field of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science that focuses on enabling computers to interpret and understand visual information from the world, just as humans do with their eyes and brains. It involves the development of algorithms, models, and systems that can process and analyze images or video data to extract meaningful information and make decisions based on that information
Why computer vision is used?
Image and Video Processing: Computer vision algorithms can handle a wide range of tasks related to image and video processing, such as filtering, enhancement, segmentation, and feature extraction.
Object Detection: Detecting and identifying objects within images or video streams is a fundamental task in computer vision. This includes tasks like identifying pedestrians in a surveillance video or locating specific objects in medical images.
Image Classification: Assigning labels or categories to images based on their content. For example, classifying images of animals into different species or identifying handwritten digits in character recognition.
Image Segmentation: Dividing an image into different regions or segments to identify and differentiate objects and their boundaries within the image.
Object Tracking: Tracking the movement and position of objects over time, typically in video sequences. This is crucial in applications like surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and robotics.
How companies are utilizing Computer vision?
Computer vision is used in many real-time applications like:
Retail and E-commerce
Health care
Automotive like self-driving cars and driving motor
Computer vision drones and machinery are used for crop monitoring
Surveillance and security purposes.
Computer vision is used to check the quality of food products, such as sorting fruits and vegetables based on appearance.
Intro to Opencv?
OpenCV, which stands for Open Source Computer Vision Library, is an open-source computer vision and machine learning software library designed to provide a wide range of tools and functions for computer vision tasks. It was initially developed by Intel and is now maintained by a community of contributors.OpenCV is an image processing library created by Intel later supported by Willow Garge and maintained by Itseez. Which is available on Mac, Windows and Linux. It is open source and free.
How to install Opencv?
Pip install opencv-python
We need to import the library by
import cv2.
Thanks for reading,
Mohammed Muqafamuddin.