Introduction to Computer Vision

One of the most striking things about intro computer vision explanations & courses today is how completely things have changed in the last 20 years. My “machine vision” textbook from college has near zero overlap with the subjects listed in this blog post, except for face and object recognition as goals, but the techniques taught for object and face recognition today are different from what was taught not so long ago. Seems like CNNs really flipped everything and that nobody starts off with Sobol operators or Medial Axes or Hough Transforms anymore. Most of computer graphics and computer science in general is still building on foundations from thirty, fifty, and seventy years ago, but it seems like vision has changed more dramatically than most other sub-field of CS.

When I see posts like these, I immediately go to the company’s homepage to see what they’re trying to sell.

One thing that stuck out to me was the “Our technology partners” section. Is Theos actually “partnering” with companies like Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, etc, on anything? Or is Theos just using technology from these companies? If it is the latter, this seems very misleading.

CV is such a huge field with an incredible breadth of goals, approaches and basic techniques - this post doesn't do it justice at all.

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