Computer vision

How it is used

Used for the field and in job titles (computer vision engineer). Typical tasks are image classification, object detection, segmentation and tracking, in areas such as manufacturing, medical imaging, retail and self-driving cars. The short form CV can be confused with CV meaning a résumé.

Example sentences

1. Our computer vision system checks every bottle on the line for cracks.

2. Most of our computer vision models run on the cameras themselves, not in the cloud.

Common collocations

• computer vision model
• computer vision engineer
• computer vision task
• computer vision pipeline

Related terms

• CNNShort for convolutional neural network: a network that slides small learned filters over an image to detect patterns such as edges, textures and shapes.
• object detectionA computer vision task that finds objects in an image or video and gives both their class, such as 'car' or 'person', and their position, usually as a box.
• image segmentationA computer vision task that labels every pixel of an image with a class or an object, giving exact shapes instead of rough boxes.
• bounding boxA rectangle drawn around an object in an image and stored as coordinates, showing where the object is. It is the standard output of object detection.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• computer vision · Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting