Building a Security System using Computer Vision
Computer Vision. Does it sound familiar? No? I am sure the following pictures should look familiar. or this? or this? All of the above, are few out of many applications of Computer Vision technology. Computer Vision is a field focused on equipping computers, to derive information from the digital images and videos. In short, it has the power to convert a camera lens into an eye. When a Tesla car runs in autopilot mode, it automatically gains understanding of most of the things on the road, including road path, vehicles, people, traffic sign boards, traffic lights etc. This happens in just the same way, a human driver driving a car understands what his eyes are watching. Actually it is a number of cameras(similar to human eye) viewing the surroundings, then communicating with the processing system(similar to human brain) in Tesla car, which understands what it is viewing and then takes the required action. This programmatic communication and the resultant action, is what Computer
