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AI Lexicon — I

Published May 17, 2024last updated May 17, 2024

Do you know your AI from your ML? Or your facial recognition from your Ethical AI? Our AI Lexicon offers easy-to-understand definitions and examples of AI in everyday life. It really is what you need to know.

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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)

DW Zulfikar Abbany
Zulfikar Abbany Senior editor fascinated by space, AI and the mind, and how science touches people
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Fred Schwaller Science writer fascinated by the brain and the mind, and how science influences society@schwallerfred