Basically, as far as the Topics in Artificial Intelligence are Concerned: Computer Vision

Vision involves the ability to obtain and process visual information Human visual systems are very complex, hard to model Can a visual system be created by piecing together many smaller modules?

Several Successes 3D modeling Surgical navigation Handwritten document recognition Vision based computer interfaces Vehicle Steering Facial expression recognition

Handwriting recognition

Autonomous Vehicle Driving Mars Rover is one of the more sophisticated examples Dozens of cameras for visual input Other examples are cars that can parallel park themselves

Examples Development of an advanced fire alarm system If you were in a room, you would notice a fire visually before enough smoke builds up to trigger standard alarms, so in a quicker system, cameras will be used and when a fire is first spotted, they will set off an alarm.

More Examples Pool Safety System was created with cameras that can detect movement and trajectories of swimmers Notifies lifeguards when it notices any suspicious activity Helped save several people from drowning in France and Germany

Pool Safety System

New Research Area Machines learning “like humans” Attempts being made to teach machines how to play games such as paper, rock, scissors, based on looking at human expressions rather than hard-coded sets of rules Further advances in such learning could produce machines that could spot intruders on video footage