# Explainer: What Is Computer Vision?

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Originally published at: [What Is Computer Vision? | NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/23/what-is-computer-vision/)  
   
Computer vision is achieved with convolutional neural networks that can use images and video to perform segmentation, classification and detection for many applications.