Computer Vision Will Help 650 Million Mobile Devices See and Do More Than Ever

"The combination of AI, machine learning, and computer vision will help us use and interact with our devices in new and more profound ways – we will move from one-to-one connections between devices and the Web and remote services to an increasingly connected ecosystem of components that work together," says Michael Inouye, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. "While some of the markets supporting embedded vision like VR and AR may appear to be new, they are in fact much older than the recent product launches – they are simply spreading because the technology has reached a critical level where science fiction and imagination are starting to become reality." 

"The combination of AI, machine learning, and computer vision will help us use and interact with our devices in new and more profound ways – we will move from one-to-one connections between devices and the Web and remote services to an increasingly connected ecosystem of components that work together," says Michael Inouye, Principal Analyst at ABI Research. "While some of the markets supporting embedded vision like VR and AR may appear to be new, they are in fact much older than the recent product launches – they are simply spreading because the technology has reached a critical level where science fiction and imagination are starting to become reality." 

Mobile devices will remain the largest market opportunity by volume of devices for computer vision. Even the expansion of markets like AR and VR will fall short of mobile devices; further, many of these AR/VR applications will leverage or rely on smartphones.  Computer vision will in some ways be bounded by what the camera can see.  Google Clips offers a new take on cameras which attempts to automatically look for and capture great moments.  Smartphone cameras intelligence may be most limited by their field of view.  They will be blind when they are in our pockets; a 180-degree front-facing camera may have immensely more useful intelligence compared to approximately 100 degrees of many devices today.

These findings are from ABI Research's Machine Vision in Devices report. This report is part of the company's Video, VR & OTT research service, which includes research, data and analyst insights.

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