A brief history of computer vision

"Study the past if you would define the future."

– Confucius

In order to better understand the current stand of the heart and current challenges of computer vision, we suggest that we quickly have a look at where it came from and how it has evolved in the past decades.

First steps to initial successes

Scientists have long dreamed of developing artificial intelligence, including visual intelligence. The first advances in computer vision were driven by this idea.

Underestimating the perception task

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