The document provides an overview of computer vision including:
- It defines computer vision as using observed image data to infer something about the world.
- It briefly discusses the history of computer vision from early projects in 1966 to David Marr establishing the foundations of modern computer vision in the 1970s.
- It lists several related fields that computer vision draws from including artificial intelligence, information engineering, neurobiology, solid-state physics, and signal processing.
- It provides examples of applications of computer vision such as self-driving vehicles, facial recognition, augmented reality, and uses in smartphones, the web, VR/AR, medical imaging, and insurance.
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