This area is generally referred to as machine learning and is used extensively. Many inspection systems and vision guided robots in factories use machine learn

This area is generally referred to as machine learning and is used extensively. Many inspection systems and vision guided robots in factories use machine learning. The netflix prize was one famous example of this. The darpa grand challenge was another famous example of this. Machine learning is used in many different places hidden from view. Probably your car automatic braking system has a machine learned controller in it. Search engines, recommeder systems. Star detection in astronomical observatories. Cheque reading in atm's and mail sorting systems. This web page about computer vision companies http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/vision.html Many automatic license recognition, speeding detection cameras might have machine learned algorithms Google voice is based on machine learning. Face detector in many different places (e.g. picasa) uses haar features and boosted decision trees. However, because it is so commonly implemented and was first made in research community (at microsoft research) no one charges for it. Field Guide to Genetic Programming (google it) contains many examples of gp application. Type in machine learning applications, or "something" classifier, e.g. face classifier, accent classifier, on google and in many cases somebody has already done it as a student project.