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Definition

Vision is the AI modality focused on images and video, including tasks like recognition, detection, segmentation, and scene understanding.
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Plain-Language Explanation

Computer vision is the field of building systems that extract useful information from images or video. Common tasks include classification, detection, segmentation, tracking, and scene understanding.
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Why It Matters

Visual data can be powerful and ambiguous. Knowing that a system performs a particular vision task helps people ask what it detects, how it was evaluated, and where lighting, viewpoint, or data gaps may cause failure.
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Example

A warehouse camera system detects damaged packages and marks the image region that triggered the alert for a human inspector.
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Common Misconception

Computer vision does not mean a computer sees or understands the world as a person does. It performs bounded operations on visual signals.
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Remember It This Way

Computer vision turns pixels and frames into task-specific information.
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Related Terms

* [[image|Image]] * [[video|Video]] * [[multimodal|Multimodal]] * [[deep-learning|Deep Learning]]
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Sources

* [Stanford HAI, “What Is Computer Vision?”](https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-definitions/what-is-computer-vision) — defines computer vision around identifying and understanding information in images and videos.
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* Compare [[image|Image]], [[video|Video]], [[multimodal|Multimodal]], and [[deep-learning|Deep Learning]] to place Computer Vision in the surrounding system. * Follow the cited source material above for the method, standard, or research context behind this draft.
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