An Overview of Computer Vision

“If we want machines to think, we need to teach them to see.”
-Fei Fei Li, Director of Stanford AI Lab and Stanford Vision Lab

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world. Machines can accurately identify and locate objects then react to what they “see” using digital images from cameras, videos, and deep learning models.

Starting in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the goal of image analysis was to mimic human vision systems and to ask computers what they see…