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CVPR

proper nounAlso: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

In plain wordsThe leading yearly conference on computer vision — teaching computers to understand images and video — and one of the most cited publication venues in any field of science.

  1. The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, a meeting usually held in June that is the largest and most influential in computer visioncomputer vision, n.: The part of AI that lets computers make sense of images and video: recognizing faces, reading signs, spotting tumors on scans or judging how far away a car is.. Its prefix names its two sponsors, the IEEE Computer Society and the nonprofit Computer Vision Foundation, which makes the papers free to read online. Landmark papers presented there include the Viola–Jones face detector (2001), histograms of oriented gradients (2005), the ImageNetImageNet, prop. n.: A huge collection of more than 14 million labeled photos, sorted into object categories, whose yearly recognition contest from 2010 to 2017 sparked the deep learning boom. dataset (2009), ResNetResNet, prop. n.: A family of image-recognition networks from 2015 whose shortcut connections allowed far deeper networks than before, over 100 layers, and became a standard building block across AI. and YOLOYOLO, prop. n.: A family of fast object-detection models that look at an image once and immediately output boxes and labels for everything they recognize, quick enough for live video. (both 2016) and the latent diffusion modellatent diffusion model, n.: A diffusion image generator that works on a shrunken, compressed version of each picture instead of the full-size pixels, which makes it far cheaper to train and run. behind Stable DiffusionStable Diffusion, prop. n.: A widely used image-generating AI whose model files were released for anyone to download, so people could run it on their own computers and adapt it. (2022). By Google Scholar's h5-index it has ranked among the most-cited publication venues in all of science since the late 2010s, a sign of how much modern AI draws on vision research. With the International and European Conferences on Computer Vision (ICCV and ECCV) it forms the field's top tier.

Origin

First held in 1983 in Washington, D.C., under the IEEE Computer Society, continuing a line of pattern-recognition and image-processing meetings from the 1970s. The Computer Vision Foundation later became co-sponsor, giving the conference its 'IEEE/CVF' prefix.

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See also
  • computer visioncomputer vision, n.: The part of AI that lets computers make sense of images and video: recognizing faces, reading signs, spotting tumors on scans or judging how far away a car is.
  • ImageNetImageNet, prop. n.: A huge collection of more than 14 million labeled photos, sorted into object categories, whose yearly recognition contest from 2010 to 2017 sparked the deep learning boom.
  • ResNetResNet, prop. n.: A family of image-recognition networks from 2015 whose shortcut connections allowed far deeper networks than before, over 100 layers, and became a standard building block across AI.
  • convolutional neural networkconvolutional neural network, n.: A kind of neural network built for images and other grid-like data. It slides small pattern detectors across the input, finding edges first, then shapes, then whole objects.
  • NeurIPSNeurIPS, prop. n.: The largest yearly scientific conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning, held each December, where many of the field's landmark papers were first presented.

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NeurIPSNeurIPS, prop. n.: The largest yearly scientific conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning, held each December, where many of the field's landmark papers were first presented., ICCVICCV, prop. n.: A major international computer vision conference, held in odd-numbered years, where much of the research on how machines interpret images and video is first presented.