[4eyes] 50 years of computer vision

[Chris Sweeney]

I recently learned that we just had the 50 year anniversary of the famous
computer vision project at MIT. Some people consider this to be a
ceremonial "birth" of computer vision.

The project task was simple to describe: recognize objects in an
image. Amazingly,
they thought this task was simple enough that it was assigned to
undergraduates as a summer project! Sounds suitable for an undergraduate in
1966 to solve object recognition in a few months, right? Fast forward 50
years and there is literally BILLIONS of dollars and thousands of people
working to solve this problem still.

The initial project outline is here. I found it interesting to read and
figured others may as well
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6125/AIM-100.pdf

-Chris
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