Editing Computer vision (section)

==Definition==
Computer vision is an [[Interdisciplinarity|interdisciplinary field]] that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-level understanding from [[digital image]]s or [[video]]s. From the perspective of [[engineering]], it seeks to automate tasks that the [[human visual system]] can do.<ref name="Ballard-Brown-1982" /><ref name="Huang-1996" /><ref name="Sonka-Hlavac-Boyle-2008" /> "Computer vision is concerned with the automatic extraction, analysis, and understanding of useful information from a single image or a sequence of images. It involves the development of a theoretical and algorithmic basis to achieve automatic visual understanding."<ref name = bmva>http://www.bmva.org/visionoverview {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216180225/http://www.bmva.org/visionoverview |date=2017-02-16 }} The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition Retrieved February 20, 2017</ref> As a [[scientific discipline]], computer vision is concerned with the theory behind artificial systems that extract information from images. The image data can take many forms, such as video sequences, views from multiple cameras, or multi-dimensional data from a [[medical scanner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://qz.com/957285/star-treks-tricorder-handheld-medical-scanner-just-got-closer-to-becoming-a-reality/|title=Star Trek's "tricorder" medical scanner just got closer to becoming a reality|first=Mike|last=Murphy|date=13 April 2017|access-date=18 July 2017|archive-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702123646/https://qz.com/957285/star-treks-tricorder-handheld-medical-scanner-just-got-closer-to-becoming-a-reality/|url-status=live}}</ref> As a technological discipline, computer vision seeks to apply its theories and models for the construction of computer vision systems. [[Machine vision]] refers to a systems engineering discipline, especially in the context of factory automation. In more recent times, the terms computer vision and machine vision have converged to a greater degree.<ref name = davies5>''Computer Vision'' Principles, algorithms, Applications, Learning   5th Edition by E.R. Davies Academic Press, Elsevier 2018 ISBN 978-0-12-809284-2</ref>{{rp|13}}