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Intro to Computer Vision

How do computers 'see'? Unlocking the secrets of pixels, object detection, and OCR.

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Seeing by Numbers

When you look at a photo of a cat, you see fur, whiskers, and eyes.
When a computer looks at the same photo, it sees a giant grid of numbers.

Each tiny dot in the image (a pixel) has a number representing its color.

  • 0 = Black
  • 255 = White

Computer Vision is the math used to find patterns in those numbers. "If I see a lot of orange numbers in a triangle shape, that might be a cat's ear."

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