In computing, machine perception is the ability of computing machines to sense and interpret images, sounds, or other contents of their environments, or of the contents of stored media.
Real-time perception of a machine's environment is useful in industrial processes, such as assembly, inspection, diagnosis, vehicle guidance, etc. Off-line perception of stored media is useful in medical and aerial photo interpretation, content-based indexing and retrieval of movies and images, etc.
Machine perception includes:[1]