{"id":126175,"date":"2021-08-13T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-computer-vision-works"},"modified":"2021-08-13T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:22:57","slug":"how-computer-vision-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/how-computer-vision-works","title":{"rendered":"How computer vision works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-computer-vision-works.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/category\/ai\/\">AI<\/a> is everywhere, yet it\u2019s not always clear when we\u2019re interacting with it, let alone which specific techniques are at play. But one subset is easy to recognize: If the experience is intelligent and involves photos or videos, or is visual in any way, computer vision is likely working behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Computer vision is a subfield of AI, specifically of machine learning. If AI allows machines to \u201cthink,\u201d then computer vision is what allows them to \u201csee.\u201d More technically, it enables machines to recognize, make sense of, and respond to visual information like photos, videos, and other visual inputs.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years, computer vision has become a major driver of AI. The technique is used widely in industries like manufacturing, ecommerce, agriculture, automotive, and medicine, to name a few. It powers everything from interactive Snapchat lenses to sports broadcasts, AR-powered shopping, medical analysis, and autonomous driving capabilities. And by 2,022 the global market for the subfield is <a href=\"https:\/\/omdia.tech.informa.com\/products\/computer-vision-technologies-and-markets-report---2020\">projected<\/a> to reach $48.6 billion annually, up from just $6.6 billion in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret that AI is everywhere, yet it\u2019s not always clear when we\u2019re interacting with it, let alone which specific techniques are at play. But one subset is easy to recognize: If the experience is intelligent and involves photos or videos, or is visual in any way, computer vision is likely working behind the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,11,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}