computer vision
A branch of {artificial intelligence} and {image processing}
concerned with computer processing of images from the real
world. Computer vision typically requires a combination of
low level {image processing} to enhance the image quality
(e.g. remove noise, increase contrast) and higher level
{pattern recognition} and {image understanding} to recognise
features present in the image.
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.ai.vision.
(1994-11-30)