Recent Advances in Computer Vision The document summarizes key developments in the field of computer vision over the past 50 years. It discusses early attempts starting in the 1960s, breakthroughs in the 1990s such as face detection and tracking algorithms, and influential works in the 2000s including SIFT features and boosting-based face detection. It also outlines major computer vision conferences and journals, and highlights current hot topics like scene understanding, image search, and computational photography that researchers are exploring with tools like priors, context, and hashing.