Definition
Computer vision is the field of building computational systems that extract representations, predictions, or actions from images, video, and other visual data. Tasks include classification, detection, segmentation, tracking, optical character recognition, depth estimation, visual question answering, and generation-conditioned perception.
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Computer vision is a field, not one architecture. Convolutional networks, vision transformers, multimodal models, and classical image-processing methods can all participate in a vision system.
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Specify the visual task, operating conditions, error costs, and evaluation data; "can see" is not a testable capability description.