Talk:Computer vision

Interestingly, biological vision (cats have been extensively studied) seems to have lots of "hardware" assist, that is, special "circuitry" to find lines, etc. However, most computer vision has been done strictly with software.

Removed. This implies that there is a clearly understood, meaningful distinction in neuroscience between hardware and software in the brain. Since this is not the case, I don't see how we can include this.

Also, note that things like the "special 'circuitry' to find lines" have been copied into computer vision efforts; they're called "feature extractors", or some such. --Ryguasu 21:51 Dec 7, 2002 (UTC)

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Much machine vision--which is applied computer vision--takes advantage of specialized hardware to pre-process results. In the 1980s and 1990s it was not uncommon for machine vision equipment manufacturers to develop specialized hardware to perform common operations (esp. connectivity analysis) on incoming video signals. More recently, specialized hardware has been replaced by configurable, programmable boards capable of processing input before the image is presented to a higher level of interface accessible to the programmer or user. -- Rethunk