The Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence

Machine vision is the classification and tracking of real-world objects based on visual, x-ray, laser, or other signals. Optical character recognition was an early success of machine vision, but deciphering handwritten text remains a work in progress. The quality of machine vision depends on human labeling of a large quantity of reference images. The simplest way for machines to start learning is through access to this labeled data. Within the next five years, video-based computer vision will be able to recognize actions and predict motion--for example, in surveillance systems.