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Computer Vision
AI that interprets images — in manufacturing, most often automated visual inspection for defects.
Computer vision is AI applied to images: recognizing what is in a photo, measuring it, spotting what should not be there. In a manufacturing context the flagship use is quality inspection — a camera over the line that checks every part, every time, without fatigue.
Getting there takes infrastructure that has nothing to do with AI: consistent lighting, camera placement, and above all a library of labeled example images including real defects. Building that library takes months of deliberate collection, which is why the honest sequencing is to start collecting now and deploy vision inspection later.
Where it shows up in this proposal: computer-vision quality inspection is a Phase 4 item on the Roadmap, listed now so the data collection that enables it can start early.