This year is giving every indication of becoming a watershed period in the development of AI-based vision processing. And, if things happen as expected, the results could be as big as, or bigger than, consumer PCs were in the 1970s, the web was in the 1990s and smartphones became during this century. The artificial-intelligence (AI) vision market is expected to be valued at $17.2 billion in 2023, growing at a CAGR of 21.5% from 2023 to 2028 (Source: MarketsandMarkets).
The question is not whether it will happen, but rather how do we want to do it? How do we want to develop vision-based AI for collision avoidance, hazard detection, route planning, and warehouse and factory efficiency, to name just a few use cases?