Vision Recognition Systems

1. To see things - to recognise parts of anything being assembled on an assembly line a factory, facial recognition software for security airports, allowing access for employees, satellite photo interpretation for weather prediction

• 5 stages, In Summer Elephants Organise Idiots, Is Simon Eating Oranges IIIIIIII


• Image Acquisition


• Signal Processing


• Edge Detection - build up a wire frame model of the shape


• Object Recognition - pattern matching, compares the shape to known objects


• Image Understanding

1. Can view an object from multiple angles


2. The object could be moving


3. Background Noise - ie the image has lots of other objects that have nothing to do with image


4. how to extract images from background

Advantages

• available 24/7


• doesn't need paid


• capable of learning new objects

Disadvantages

• no common sense


• people may lose their jobs