Talk:Computer vision
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- Interestingly, biological vision (cats have been extensively studied) seems to have lots of "hardware" assist, that is, special "circuitry" to find lines, etc. However, most computer vision has been done strictly with software.
Removed. This implies that there is a clearly understood, meaningful distinction in neuroscience between hardware and software in the brain. Since this is not the case, I don't see how we can include this.
Also, note that things like the "special 'circuitry' to find lines" have been copied into computer vision efforts; they're called "feature extractors", or some such. --Ryguasu 21:51 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)
Much machine vision--which is applied computer vision--takes advantage of specialized hardware to pre-process results. In the 1980s and 1990s it was not uncommon for machine vision equipment manufacturers to develop specialized hardware to perform common operations (esp. connectivity analysis) on incoming video signals. More recently, specialized hardware has been replaced by configurable, programmable boards capable of processing input before the image is presented to a higher level of interface accessible to the programmer or user. -- Rethunk
This article is almost as Machine vision..
Should Machine vision and Computer vision combined?
I removed "Computer vision is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computer graphics." Computer graphics and computer vision have very separate histories, and only within the last 10 years have people started to explore the overlap within the fields. Computer vision arose from artificial intelligence, and was original a sub-topic of one of the main AI conferences (IJCAI, I think). Roughly speaking, computer vision and computer graphics address related, but distinct problems. Computer graphics is about converting scene descriptions to images, and computer vision is about converting images to scene descriptions; one is not a subproblem of the other. In both research and practice, the fields have historically been separate, but this is changing.
I would argue that "machine vision" is a synonym for "computer vision." However the content in the machine vision article is a very limited view of computer vision that focuses on primitive techniques that would not be considered broadly representative of computer vision by any means. -- Aaronh