Visual Perception-From Human Vision to Computer Vision

Author(s): Ranjeet Singh

Originally published on Towards AI.

A brief about the inspiring ideas from human cognition

Made up of 140 million neurons, the human visual cortex is one of the most mysterious parts of the brain responsible for processing and interpreting visual data to give perception and formulate memories. Humans can tell a lot about a scene from a little information. For example, given the image below, a human can give the whole story behind this scene utilizing context and his prior knowledge.

But how hard it is to make computers perceive the visual world? We have made significant progress as of 2019 but still, there is a long way to go. Computer vision is a relatively… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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