Introduction

Applied in whole range of electromanetic waves

In wide range of applications
Biology Astronomy Medical Daily images
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Cell counting
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images Brain X-ray - Broken bone
Ultra sound prenatal baby
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Control product quality and appearance





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Barcode 1D&2D for identifying products and
consumer items
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Sputnik Sony Aibo robots - RoboCup
Mars rover - Opportunity
Industrial Parallel robot:
Picking & Placing
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Wiki mapia Weather forecast
Fire detection Where is it??? Military: Iran Nuclear Facility
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Finger print Iris recognition
Face Detection &
Recognition
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Transportation service
Security service
Vehicle plate recognition
Super market
monitoring
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NASA Hubble Telescope
Suppernova Bubble (160,000
light-years from Earth)
Engle Nebula
(7,000 light-years
from Earth)
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Character recognition:
Vietnamese/English
Printed text - Scan/ digital text - PDA
Example of online text
recognition application
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Compare the color of sample products with
produced products

Compare the shape of products:
Round
Length

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Fingerprint recognition
Human face recognition
Criminal recogntion
Information hiding in images
Gamma-rays:
A nuclear emission ray
Patent is injected a
radioactive isotope
emitting gamma-ray
It also is jetted from 2
poles of a black-hole as
it swallows materials.
Detected by gamma-ray
detectors and produce
images.
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Medical applications:
Pictures inner parts of body.
Obtain images of blood
vessels.
Industrial applications:
Examine for flaws
Check for missing parts
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Use fluorescence
materials to detect
ultraviolet rays

Many applications
in many areas:
industry, biologics,
astronomy,

Ants can sense
ultraviolet-rays
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Radar:
To explore inaccesible regions of Earths surface.
To detect the distance to objects
It illuminates the target object and capture the
reflected microwave energy from radar antenna.
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Low-level process:
Inputs and outputs are images.
Noise reduction, contrast enhancement,

Mid-level process:
Extract attributs from images.
Segmentation, single object recog.,

High-level process
Perform cognitive functions

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