Teaching Machines to See: From Rules to Vision-Language Models

How has AI learned to “see”? Join Dr. Lino Coria, Teaching Professor and Program Director of the MS in Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University Vancouver, for a hands-on workshop exploring the evolution of computer vision.

Through interactive demonstrations, explore three generations of AI—traditional rule-based computer vision, pretrained neural networks, and today’s vision-language models—and see how each approach interprets visual information.

Designed for developers, technical professionals, and AI enthusiasts, the workshop focuses on concepts rather than code. No machine learning background is required.