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Examples include dark or bright spots, different colors, sharp edges, lines,
and curves.
Interest operators can serve various purposes in a robotic vision system.
One function is to eliminate correspondence, an undesirable condition
that can occur in binocular machine vision when patterns confuse the
machine’s sense of depth. Interest operators provide points of reference
independent of general patterns. Another function of an interest operator
is to ascertain boundaries, as in edge detection. Such algorithms are also
useful in vision systems that incorporate local feature focus.
See also BINOCULAR MACHINE VISION, CORRESPONDENCE, LOCAL FEATURE FOCUS, and
VISION SYSTEM.
INTERFACE
An interface is a device that carries data between a computer and its
peripherals, or between a computer and a human.An interface consists of

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