Introduction - Week 1 Flashcards
1
Q
What is / what is the goal of computer vision?
A
To bridge the gap between pixels and meaning
Goal of computer vision is to write computer programs that can interpret images
2
Q
What is detection / segmentation?
A
Where is an interesting thing in the image, what is it’s boundary?
3
Q
What is classification?
A
Assigning labels to images
4
Q
Why is computer vision difficult?
A
It is an inverse problem:
seek to recover some unknowns given insufficient information
Have to resort to physics-based and probabilistic models to disambiguate between potential solutions
