The document provides an introduction to computer vision. It discusses key topics including:
- What computer vision is and why it is useful. It uses mathematical and computational tools to extract information from images and improve human vision.
- Some basic concepts in computer vision including digital images, sampling, noise removal, segmentation, and feature extraction techniques.
- Where computer vision is used such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles, augmented/virtual reality, industry, social media, security, agriculture, and fashion.
- A brief history of computer vision including classical approaches and the revolution enabled by advances in artificial intelligence and deep learning.