Computer vision is the use of software to extract information from images. This is an important topic, with applications in fields such as medicine (finding tumors), astronomy (finding planets), and security (finding criminals). In this last part of the book, we will solve the problem of reading speed signs, which is necessary for self-driving cars.
The speed signs that our software will read consist of black numerals inside a red circle, all on a white background. By the end of the book, we will have written software that ...