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COMPUTER VISION

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"Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure" HISTORY OF COMPUTER VISION Computer vision(cv) has been around for over 50 years, its development began in the 1950,s around the same time when artificial intelligence gained prominence . In the summer of 1966, Seymour Papert and Marvin Minsky at MIT Artificial Intelligence group started a project titled Summer Vision Project . The main aim of this project was to build a system that could analyze a picture and identify all objects in the image, it is interesting to note that even now CV is a complicated area with thousands of researchers across the globe trying to perfect it but it was started by two undergraduates who dared to solve it way back in the 1960,s ,in the 1970,s , David Marr ,a neuroscientist at MIT , taking cue from brain studies including cerebellum, hippocampus and c