Computer Vision - The Next Frontier of Innovation
Computer Vision - The Next Frontier of Innovation
Imagine walking to an ATM kiosk
pressing a button and getting your cash (Forget Cashless world for a moment),
no cards, no pins, nothing it's just "YOU" that matter without the
need of any surrogate that you must carry. Yes, sounds futuristic, but
STARiENGINEERING believe we are at its doorstep. This and many more magic are
possible with the advancement computing leveraging computer vision and breaking
the barrier of traditional computer input mechanism that have been serving as
their senses to react to its users needs till date.
STARiENGINEERING believes Computing has
evolved from its Stone Age era of reliance on punch cards for its input, to
keyboards, mouse, touch and to recent innovations of voice enabled inputs such
as Siri and Cortana. Computers are fundamentally designed to understand binaries,
various input mechanism that's are being used are approaches that's more
convenient for we humans and at the same time has the feasibility to be
translated to binaries. For major part of computing history, text based input
served as the best deal, with this approach there is always an explicit step to
translate the Subject, its desire, its credential and privileges to
alphanumeric representation that computers can work on, hence you have this
cards or usernames that identifies the subject and pins or passwords that
Authenticates the subject. The input mechanism is just a means to
translate the user's desire to the binary format that computers can understand.
With Computer Vision this whole model changes the actual subjects are
translated to binaries that machines can understand and act upon. Chui a doorbell with facial recognition capabilities is one such
application of this smart technology that is changing how we interact with
machines and realize its value. The engagement with machines are becoming more
direct and implicit.
Computer Vision is convergence of Image
Processing, Artificial Intelligence (Machine learning to be specific) and Big
data which enable machines to perceive things just like how we humans do, in
turn making machine one step closer to replicate human senses to process its
surroundings. STARiENGINEERING believes Technology today is quite matured in
applying Computer Vision to specific domain like facial recognition or reading
vehicle license plate, but it's challenging to apply it more generically in
fields like self-driving car where there are too many variations that needs to
be processed to present the optimal outcomes, additionally the field of
self-driving cars has too many legal, compliance and ethical issues beyond
technology that's needs to be addressed before they become mainstream consumer
technologies. Until then its prime time for Computer Vision to change how we
interact and extend the boundaries of computers.
In an era of smartphone where every
phone is equipped with camera, its coincidentally ready for the game of
computer vision. Computer Vision in collaboration with Augmented reality has
immense potential, where computing can enrich our physical world with immense
data that's available for us, but instead of we explicating searching this
information, computer vision would help us overlay this important information
that matter us the most in real-time, taking the whole experience to a new
level, one where we are presented with valuable information rather than
requesting it. This would be a typical example of technology enriching
our senses as we develop senses for our technology. There are many
apps that allows you to focus your camera on your surrounding and get your
valuable information based on geolocation and subject in focus. Hyundai's Augmented Reality owner
manualis another excellent example of this
technology being applied innovatively.
With the capability, there and
maturing, there is immense possibilities that's conceivable with Computer
Vision. Financial Investors are using satellite imaginary to get real time
inputs to economic metrics like traffic at ports, oil reserves and crop yields.
The same method can be used in health care to check trends in flu and other
seasonal diseases by analyzing parked cars at Hospital and Urgent Care centers.
With eyes in sky, property and casualty insurers can have a better insight to
their potential liabilities in certain areas by observing traffic and accidents
in areas they cover. These are just the patterns that can be extended to
different business areas to gain massively from Computer Vision. With today's
world, all about images shot at megapixel there are trove of information
waiting to be harvested, and time is ripe for innovative use cases that could
be leveraged using Computer Vision.
All technologies comes with its own
concerns, with Computer Vision where any visual is more than an image, there
are huge concerns of privacy as simple camera has the capability of going
behind its realm to provide and extract information that otherwise would only
be possible through human intervention. All said its a beginning of a new
Technological journey that has the potential to make our childhood days science
fiction into reality. Computer Vision is well positioned to lead the revolution
until we dawn into next penultimate era of computer telepathy where our
thoughts are translated to binary to serve as computer commands J.
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