Computer vision

📖 Full definition

Computer vision covers object detection, facial recognition, segmentation, tracking, etc. It relies on CNNs or more recent architectures (Transformers, ViT). It is everywhere: self-driving cars, medicine, security, smartphone computational photography.

💡 Concrete example

Look Like Me is a computer-vision application: detection + alignment + embedding + comparison.

🔄 Synonyms

CV

🔗 See also

• CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) →
• Deep learning →
• Facial embedding →