ABSTRACT

Computer vision (also known as machine vision) is a form of artificial intelligence that strives to make computers able to “see” like normally sighted persons. The basic approach consists of analyzing visual information taken of a scene-either a static image or a video sequence, acquired by one or more cameras-and using software algorithms to infer important visual elements in the scene, including the presence, location, and appearance of various objects and the three-dimensional (3-D) scene layout.

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