Raising Awareness of Computer Vision : How can a single purpose focused CV solution be improved?

• Main Author: Zukas, Paulius
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM) 2018
• Subjects: software design; low-cost; computer vision; OpenCV; C#; Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems); Datorseende och robotik (autonoma system)
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76625

The concept of Computer Vision is not new or fresh. On contrary ideas have been shared and worked on for almost 60 years. Many use cases have been found throughout the years and various systems developed, but there is always a place for improvement. An observation was made, that methods used today are generally focused on a single purpose and implement expensive technology, which could be improved. In this report, we are going to go through an extensive research to find out if a professionally sold, expensive software, can be replaced by an off the shelf, low-cost solution entirely designed and developed in-house. To do that we are going to look at the history of Computer Vision, examples of applications, algorithms, and find general scenarios or computer vision problems which can be solved. We are then going take a step further and define solid use cases for each of the scenarios found. Finally, a prototype solution is going to be designed and presented. After analysing the results gathered we are going to reach out to the reader convincing him/her that such application can be developed and work efficiently in various areas saving investments to businesses.