Money is pouring into the Internet of Things, built around smart sensors connected to the Internet. But the richest sense of all, vision, has largely been bypassed, used in industry for only a fraction of its potential. Machine vision has been isolated in a technological backwater.
Until recently, computer vision — used most widely in manufacturing — and mainstream computing technology have existed in parallel worlds. Along with other factory floor technologies, computer vision tends to be machine-specific, hardware driven, and makes little if any use of the Internet. Many the advances we take for granted in modern computing — ubiquitous connectivity, unlimited data storage in the cloud, insights drawn from massive unstructured data sets — have yet to be applied systematically to the factory floor in general and to computer vision specifically. (…)
via Liberating Machine Vision From the Machines | Innovation Insights | Wired.com.