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Human vision is often referred to as an “existence proof” for challenging targets of machine vision. But in some areas machine vision evidently “beats” human vision, so the questions arise: Is human vision any good, will it be supplanted by machine vision for most tasks soon? I analyze human vision with the aim to provide an answer to such questions. Does machine vision still have anything to learn from human vision? I identify a number of basic principles of biological vision that are likely to be of interest to the machine vision community.
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Koenderink, J.J. (2010). Is Human Vision Any Good?. In: Cipolla, R., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M. (eds) Computer Vision. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12848-6_1
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