What Is Computer Vision?
Computer vision uses artificial intelligence to “see” and interpret visual data and can be deployed in cameras, edge servers, or the cloud.
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Seeing the Future, Today
There’s a lot to learn from watching your business: for example, how customers move through your stores and what they look at, where your production line slows down, or what inventory needs to be restocked. But it’s not humanly possible to keep an eye on business all the time. That’s where computer vision steps in.
Intel® technologies power vision solutions that enterprises can deploy today—with the flexibility to adapt for future use cases. With computer vision, companies of all sizes can unleash AI in edge devices (like cameras), in edge servers, or in the cloud.
What Is Computer Vision?
Computer vision combines cameras, edge computing, cloud-based computing, software, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help systems “see” and identify objects. Intel has a rich portfolio of technologies to enable AI, including CPUs for general purpose processing and computer vision and vision processing units (VPUs) to provide acceleration. Valuable in a wide range of environments, computer vision systems can recognize objects and people quickly, analyze audience demographics, inspect manufactured products, and much more.
Computer vision uses deep learning to form neural networks that guide systems in their image processing and analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) techniques, such as those included with the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, enable deep learning inference for image classification and object detection. Once fully trained, computer vision models can perform object recognition, detect and recognize people, and even track movement.
Edge to Cloud Computing
With the powerful combination of edge and cloud computing, businesses can create a future in which applications dynamically move across the organization to where the greatest value can be found.
Computer Vision Use Cases
Today’s computer vision systems support a range of industries, from manufacturing to retail to finance, helping businesses extend and enhance AI at the edge. Object detection, object recognition, and object classification are the key functions in computer vision systems today.
Computer Vision for Smart Cities
Smart city technologies can help gather video feeds from the streets, so city leaders can make smarter operational decisions.
Manufacturing Machine Vision
This type of computer vision helps advance industrial IoT and automation by enabling equipment monitoring, predictive maintenance, and more.
Shopper Analytics in Retail
Computer vision can help retailers understand where to place products, when to restock inventory, and who their customers are through demographics.
Medical Imaging
The latest computer vision technologies are transforming medical imaging by streamlining workflows to help improve patient care with faster and more accurate diagnosis.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent transportation systems can harness near-real-time information from vision solutions to improve pedestrian and passenger safety, alleviate traffic congestion, and much more.
Object Detection and Recognition
Object recognition provides new capabilities in a variety of situations. These solutions can help smart cities track vehicles and adjust traffic light timings to alleviate congestion. They can also help manufacturers identify defects on the product line, and help retailers enhance inventory management.
Smart Communities and Parks
Well-placed cameras and sensors equipped with computer vision solutions can help protect communities and improve public safety in parks and around other public infrastructure.
Smart Building Solutions
ThunderSoft has enhanced the value of their operations by developing a smart building solution based on Intel architecture to empower building management with edge Intelligence.
Intel® Vision Portfolio
Deploy edge AI solutions for vision and more, exactly where they’re needed to achieve real-time responses and gain insights fast.
IoT and Embedded Processors
Our latest, enhanced for IoT processors offer unique features for functional safety and real-time performance—ideal for robotics, automation, and other use cases.
Accelerators and Programmable Devices
Add efficiency and flexibility to demanding computer vision and edge AI workloads with Intel® Movidius™ VPUs, Intel® FPGAs, and other programmable devices. Intel Movidius VPUs balance power efficiency and performance to enable intelligent cameras and edge devices while FPGAs add customizable connectivity for low-latency applications.
Software to Accelerate Development
Accelerate your work—from prototype to production—with software that streamlines development and allows your applications to scale across multiple types of compute and use cases.
Ecosystem Enablement
The Intel® AI: In production ecosystem focuses on reducing deployment complexities, promoting partner AI offerings, matchmaking among our community partners, and integrating with Intel’s partner programs to help deploy and scale solutions for AI at the edge.
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