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by varjag 591 days ago
Perhaps in 2024. Not in 2004.
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I know the history and the fist USPS applications. My point is in any random industrial vision setup on the verge of millennium you'd unlikely found any sort of NN.
What would you find instead?
None of those work for many common cases - which is why CNN’s revolutionized actual use of computer vision.
I'm not sure why are you arguing with me, my point was what was the historical reality at the time. Machine vision used feature detectors, cellphones had keyboards, teenagers wore low cut jeans.