Where Does a Vision Model Keep Its Knowledge? A Developer's History of Computer Vision
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In 2001, Paul Viola and Michael Jones described a face detector that ran at 15 frames per second on 384×288 images using a 700 MHz Pentium III ( Viola & Jones, CVPR 2001 ). Roughly a quarter-century later, Meta's 2025 SAM 3 takes the phrase "yellow school bus" and returns masks for the object instances it matches to that concept across an image or video ( Carion et al., SAM 3, 2025 ). If you build things, the interesting gap between those two systems is not faster chips. It is where the…
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- In 2001, Paul Viola and Michael Jones described a face detector that ran at 15 frames per second on 384×288 images using a 700 MHz Pentium III ( Viola & Jones, CVPR 2001 ).
- Roughly a quarter-century later, Meta's 2025 SAM 3 takes the phrase "yellow school bus" and returns masks for the object instances it matches to that concept across an image or video ( Carion et al., SAM 3, 2025 ).
- If you build things, the interesting gap between those two systems is not faster chips.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that in 2001, Paul Viola and Michael Jones described a face detector that ran at 15 frames per second on 384×288 images using a 700 MHz Pentium III ( Viola & Jones, CVPR 2001 ).
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