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Reinforcement learning applied to machine vision: state of the art

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Reinforcement learning (RL) is gaining a foothold in artificial intelligence-based research academia. More and more applications are coming to fore where RL is being applied in a novel and successful manner. As the areas of application are diverse, one important area of industrial and research significance having a high scope is machine vision. In this survey paper, the basics of RL are discussed first in order to give the reader an overview of the technology. Subsequently, the important, novel and upcoming state-of-the-art applications are discussed in the field of RL. The research areas discussed include image segmentation, object detection, object tracking, robotic vision, autonomous driving and image classification/retrieval. Various state-of-the-art works are discussed and an impression of the potential and impact of RL in the field of machine vision is built.

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Hafiz, A.M., Parah, S.A. & Bhat, R.A. Reinforcement learning applied to machine vision: state of the art. Int J Multimed Info Retr 10, 71–82 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13735-021-00209-2

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