A Guided Tour of Computer Vision

Vision is such an awesome experience that we allude to it time and again in our language. Seeing is believing. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of vision. Love is blind. We see eye-to-eye, and we foresee. We exchange views, and we maintain viewpoints. It is no surprise that the metaphors abound: Vision is without doubt the predominant mode of human perception. It is fast and accurate; it is reliable and nonintrusive; it simultaneously provides both detail and an overview. After all, it is a picture that is worth a thousand words: not a touch, a sound, a taste, or a smell.