AI Lexicon — I

Image recognition

A process of detecting, identifying and categorizing things in digital images and/or video. That can be people, objects, places, buildings, logos, cars, flowers, products or anything else that's been determined to be of interest for an artificial intelligence system and the humans that run it. Image recognition is not the same as computer vision, which is described as AI technologies that computers use to extract useful information from digital images, videos or other visual data. (za/fs)

 

Sources:

Image Recognition (ScienceDirect) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/image-recognition (accessed October 18, 2023)

Image Recognition (Gartner Glossary) https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/image-recognition (accessed October 18, 2023)

What is computer vision (IBM) https://www.ibm.com/topics/computer-vision (accessed October 18, 2023) 

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Written and edited by: Zulfikar Abbany (za), Fred Schwaller (fs)