👉 Bitterns are a type of digital signal processing algorithm that is commonly used in computer vision and image analysis. They were invented by Jörg Schmid in 1985, but their original implementation was developed by Jochen Koenig in 2013. The term "bittern" comes from the German word "Bittern", which means "little butterfly". It is a term used to describe the small size of these algorithms and their complexity. Bitterns are