A Brief History of Computer Vision (and Convolutional Neural Networks)
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Although Computer Vision (CV) has only exploded recently (the breakthrough moment happened in 2012 when AlexNet won ImageNet), it certainly isn’t a new scientific field.Computer scientists around the world have been trying to find ways to make machines extract meaning from visual data for about 60 years now, and the history of Computer Vision, which most people don’t know much about, is deeply fascinating.In this article, I’ll try to shed some light on how modern CV systems, powered primarily by convolutional neural networks, came to be.I’ll start with a work that came out in the late 1950s and has nothing to do with software engineering.One of the most influential papers in Computer Vision was published by two neurophysiologists — David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel — in 1959. Their publication, (...)
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