How do computers see so well?

Transportation has been around for a long time. From riding horses 🐎, to the first car made in 1885, to modern cars today, transportation is a 🔑 component associated with our lifestyle.

If you look at the cars today, take a moment to think about how we got here.

• The late 1800s-1900s: Cars were being introduced and powered by gasoline ⛽
• Electric cars came along ⚡
• Now, self-driving cars 🚗.

To this day, the majority of transportation vehicles are operated by a human, but with machine learning advancing super fast, we might not need a driver behind the wheel.

How?

Computer vision 🤖.

A quick overview of Computer Vision

If you aren’t aware of this field, that’s totally cool! I’ll briefly explain this:

Computer vision focuses on training computers to gain a higher-level understanding of pictures and video clips. Let’s take this example:

In a high-level environment, the goal is to train the computer to recognize that some of the objects in the picture…