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Rationale for Computational Vision

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Computer vision

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Vision is a scientific field that investigates biological systems and machines how to use light to gain information about their environments. It covers several subfields such as optics, perception, psychophysics, neurophysiology, information science, signal processing, cognitive science, and related subjects.

Background

Background section will not be a review of all the contributions to the field of vision from all the subfields mentioned above. Rather it shall concentrate on how different subfields try to solve the problem vision and how this field has evolved over time due to better understanding of the problems but also due to more powerful technological tools.

Fundamentally vision utilizes the spatial and temporal information (structure) that stems from the reflection of light from the environment. The focus will be on the computational aspects of processing of this visual information, asking how visual information is represented for recognition,...

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Sciences, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Ruzena Bajcsy

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  1. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsushi Ikeuchi

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Bajcsy, R. (2014). Rationale for Computational Vision. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_270

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