Computer Vision is an emergent field that is taking its place as key discipline in modern computer science. In the last couple of years, the first billion dollars computer vision companies have emerged, a phenomenon that shows the coming to age of the field. In the near futere, we will see many more comercial applications of computer vision, ranging from industrial inspection and measurement to security database search, surveillance, multimedia and computer interfaces. However, computer vision is far from being a solved problem. The most exciting developments, dicoveries and applications lie ahead of us. After all, understanding the principles of vision has implications far beyond engineering, since visual perception is one of the key modules of human intelligence.
In this talk, I will review the basic fundamentals of computer vision, giving a glance to the different problems in the field. I will describe two particular projects that are currently undergoing at the Caltech's Vision group. I will also describe the important conection between computer vision and microelectronics, and the implicances for the development of a new technology of smart sensors.

 
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