Vision-Input System: Computer Eyes:
The simulation of human sense, especially vision, is extremely complex. A computer does not actually see and interpret an image the way a human being does. A camera is needed to give computer "eyesight". To create the database, a vision system, via a camera, digitizes the images of all objects to be identified and then stores the digitized form of each image in the database. When the system is placed in operation, the camera enters the image into a digitizer. The system then compares the digitized image to be interpreted to the prerecorded digitized images in the computer's database; much like a speech-recognition system does with speech input. The computer identifies the image by matching the structure of the input image with those image in the database.
Vision-input system are best suited to very specialized tasks in which only a few images will be encountered. these tasks are usually simple, repetitive ones, such as inspection.
Vision input offers great promise for the future. Can you imagine traveling by car from your home to office or in different cities, without the burden of driving? Not really. Mercedes-Benz, the German automaker, is actively developing a system that will allow you to do just that. The copilot system is a step up from cruise control, freeing the driver from both the accelerator pedal and the steering wheel. Like cruise control, the driver would remain behind the wheel, even when the system is operational. The foundation technology is vision input.
This part of the system works will; however, Mercedes-Benz engineers have many hurdles to overcome before you see this feature in showroom automobiles. someday the safest drivers on the road won't be driving at all.
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