自人类诞生以来，视觉和视觉呈现（可视化）就在理解信息方面发挥着重要的核心作用。在人类所有的感觉器官中，眼睛吸收信息的带宽最高。古语 "一图胜千言 "就证明了这一事实。

经典 "意义上的可视化目标是有目的地将数据转化为可见图像，以支持人类探索、识别和解释结构和过程，而机器视觉的目标则是通过智能电眼来完成这些任务。这意味着机器可以确定视场、识别结构和过程并对其进行解释。

Since the dawn of man, sight and visual representation (visualization) have played a significant, central role in the understanding of information. Of all the human sensory organs, the eye has the highest bandwidth for absorbing information. This fact is supported by the old saying "A picture is worth a thousand words".

While the goal of visualization in the "classic" sense is the purposeful transformation of data into a visible image to support the human person in their exploration, identification and interpretation of structures and processes, the goal of machine vision is to perform these tasks by means of intelligent electric eyes. That means that the machine determines the field of view, identifies structures and processes and interprets them.