A-Z of Machine Learning and Computer Vision Terms

AI Assisted Labeling

Active Learning

Anomaly Detection

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Backpropagation

Batch Normalization

Bayesian Network

Binary Classification

Calibration Curve

Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA)

Case-Based Reasoning

Chain of Thought (CoT)

Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detection (CHAID)

Class Boundary (Statistics & Machine Learning)

Class Imbalance

Collaborative Filtering

Computer Vision

Computer Vision Model

Conditional Random Field (CRF)

Confusion Matrix

Constrained Clustering

Contrastive Learning

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)

Cross-Validation

Data Approximation

Data Augmentation

Data Operations

Data Pre-processing

Decision Boundary

Deep Neural Networks

Dimensionality Reduction

Dynamic and Event-Based Classifications

Embedding Spaces

Ensemble Learning

Expectation-Maximization Algorithm (EM)

Extreme Learning Machine

FP-Growth Algorithm

Factor Analysis

False Positive Rate

Feature Engineering

Feature Extraction

Feature Hashing

Feature Learning

Feature Scaling

Feature Selection

Few-shot Learning

Fisher’s Linear Discriminant

Foundation Models

Frames Per Second (FPS)

Fully Connected Layer

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)

Generative Adversarial Networks

Generative Pre-Trained Transformer

O

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of converting images of text (handwritten, typed, or printed) into machine-encoded text. Essentially, it’s reading text from images. Classic OCR techniques involve segmentation of text into characters or words, and then classification of those shapes into letters/digits. Early OCR used pattern matching templates or feature-based classifiers (like SVM on HOG features of characters). Modern OCR often uses deep learning: convolutional networks or recurrent networks (or combination) that can output sequences of characters given an image (possibly using CTC loss for sequence training, as in some handwriting recognition systems). There’s also the concept of end-to-end OCR or scene text recognition: find text in a natural image (localize bounding boxes of text lines or words) and then recognize the text. Tesseract is a well-known open-source OCR engine. OCR is crucial for digitizing documents, reading signs in vision systems, assistive tech for the visually impaired, automatic number plate recognition, etc.

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Class Boundary (Statistics & Machine Learning)

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)

Large Language Model (LLM)

Chain of Thought (CoT)

Foundation Models

Semantic Segmentation

Variance (Model Variance)

XAI (Explainable AI)

YOLO (You Only Look Once)

Weight Decay (L2 Regularization)

Text Generation Inference

True Positive Rate (TPR)

Type II Error (False Negative)

Type I Error (False Positive)

Transformers (Transformer Networks)

Stream-Based Selective Sampling

Support Vector Machine (SVM)

Sentiment Analysis

Surrogate Model

Supervised Learning

Semi-supervised Learning

Selective Sampling

Sliding Window Attention

Sensitivity and Specificity of Machine Learning

Segment Anything Model (SAM)

Regularization Algorithms

ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) Curve

Scale Imbalance

Regression (Regression Analysis)

Region-Based CNN (R-CNN)

Recall (Sensitivity or True Positive Rate)

RAG Architecture

Query Synthesis Methods

Query Strategy (Active Learning)

Predictive Model Validation

Prompt Injection

Prompt Engineering

Prompt Chaining

Pose Estimation

Pool-Based Sampling

Pattern Recognition

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (Prefix-Tuning)

Pandas and NumPy

Panoptic Segmentation

PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System)

Outlier Detection

Object Tracking

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

One-Shot Learning

Object Localization

Object Detection

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Neural Networks

Multi-Task Learning

Motion Detection

Motion Estimation

Model Validation

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

Medical Image Segmentation

Model Parameters

Mean Squared Error (MSE)

Mean Average Precision (mAP)

Machine Learning (ML)

Linear Regression

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA)

Intersection over Union (IoU)

Interpretability

Imbalanced Dataset

Instance Segmentation

Image Processing

Image Restoration

Image Segmentation

Image Recognition