Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

computer vision
     
        A branch of {artificial intelligence} and {image processing}
        concerned with computer processing of images from the real
        world.  Computer vision typically requires a combination of
        low level {image processing} to enhance the image quality
        (e.g. remove noise, increase contrast) and higher level
        {pattern recognition} and {image understanding} to recognise
        features present in the image.
     
        {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.ai.vision}.
     
        (1994-11-30)