Jerdy's blog

We are asked to teach computer vision for this week.

Computer vision is one of the subfields of Artificial Intelligence that deals with how computers can be made to gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. Computer vision seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. Automation basically is making machines do the job of humanbeings. Computer vision allows machines, semi-controlled vehicles, drones, factories and farm equipment to work effectively and safely.

Computer vision has been implemented in several aspects including finance, automotive, healthcare, agriculture, industry, etc. I will be specifically discuss on the aspect of finance. One of the application that has implemented computer vision in the financial area is Cortexia. Cortexia relies on visual Search.

Everyone has probably faced the challenge of liking something but not knowing where to buy it. All we need to do is to take a photo of a magazine page or drag an image from social media, and find a similar or the exact item to buy.

jerdy@binus.ac.id