In the field of technology, computer vision is one of the most important areas of artificial intelligence. And as you can see in this article, computer vision has transformed the way many companies and sectors handle their processes and operations.

Therefore, this article addresses the main applications of this concept, through the following topics:

• What is computer vision
• How it is applied in society
• How it is applied in industry

What is computer vision?

As you can see in one of the articles already posted here on the Kot Blog, computer vision is one of the areas of artificial intelligence that tries to imitate the processing of images that are made by human eyes for computers. 

As computer vision is a new discipline that has emerged along with the advance of Industry 4.0, it is still a developing topic. There is a lot of effort involved in implementing this machine learning so that the interpretation of human vision can be carried out by them, which will bring great contributions to various segments in society and companies.

The article referenced in the first paragraph explains in detail the concepts, their stages, advantages and limitations.

How it is applied in society

After all, how can this concept be applied in society?

The advantages offered by this system can be very useful in various community contexts, as it is a tool with great applicability and usability.

Unlike human eyes, computer vision can "see" over much greater distances and in conditions that humans cannot. Some of these examples are intense darkness, high brightness or frequencies that are not part of the human field of vision, broadening the spectrum seen.

Therefore, it is possible to state that some of its functions in a society may be:

• Facial recognition of emotions;
• Identification of human activity;
• Vehicle detector;
• Video generation and processing;
• Computer vision as a service.

These functions are applicable to different areas of activity, including health, private or public companies, logistics and, among many others, industry.

How it is applied in industry

From an industrial point of view, there are some specific aspects to the use of computer vision. These are

Non-invasive check without breaking the product casing

With this application, computer vision is able to check the product without the need to break the packaging, which optimizes and speeds up the process and preserves the internal contents of the wrapping.

Preventing machine collisions

This is another extremely important application of computer vision, as it concerns accident prevention within industry. During industrial operations, there are possibilities of collisions between machines, and this technology can prevent these accidents from happening.

Pattern recognition

This function is linked to the automation of processes by identifying labels, barcodes, letters, printed numbers, QR Codes and other types of pre-programmed pattern.

Inspection by image processing

Computer vision can also be used to inspect machinery and structures through image processing. More specific information on this is available in an article already posted on the Blog, available here.

Figure 1: Computer vision applications. SOURCE: Kot Collection.

Conclusion

Artificial Intelligence has, year after year, been crucial to the development of extremely useful tools for different sectors of industry, the market and the community in general.

Computer vision is one of these areas that, even though it is still evolving, is already able to meet and speed up demands that were previously time-consuming and complex with greater ease.

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