This is an extensive collection of essays on all aspects of vision, approached from the perspective of coding and efficiency. It examines the broad spectrum of vision research from one particular, unifying viewpoint, namely the way that visual systems efficiently encode and represent the outside world. This approach, both rigorous and general, was championed by H.B. Barlow in the fifties and has been followed in many areas of vision research. The approach has recently acquired new significance due to the growing interest of computer science and artificial intelligence in the processes of vision, which attempts to describe visual processes in algorithmic terms, equally relevant to a robotic visual system, the eye of a fly or the complex visual pathways in the human brain.
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"Readers with prior exposure to image processing or computational aspects of vision will easily appreciate the richness and relevance of research reported in the book. Practicing imaging scientists, especially those seeking to develop new algorithms to address practical issues such as color portability, constancy, and perceptually salient edge detection for compression, will find valuable cues in the form of theoretical and experimental results in this book. Those in academia will certainly find the book packed with many seeds for future thought....a valuable collection of archival contributions and is strongly recommended for every technical library." K. Venkatesh Prasad, Journal of Electronical Imaging
"The book can be recommended for the neurosurgeon interested in the physiology of the senses, especially since it contains the most up-to-date knowledge and newest developments." D. Voth, Neurosurgery Rreview
"The book can be recommended for the neurosurgeon interested in the physiology of the senses, especially since it contains the most up-to-date knowledge and newest developments." D. Voth, Neurosurgery Rreview
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Essays on all aspects of vision, approached from the perspective of coding and efficiency, examine the broad spectrum of vision research from one unifying viewpoint, namely the way that visual systems efficiently encode and represent the outside world.
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Attempts to understand the quantum efficiency of vision have resulted in three distinct measures of efficiency. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
callosal pattern, decussation line, uncrossed ganglion cells, retinal incidence, reverse occluded, uncrossed terminals, corneal photons, daily occlusion, detector handicapped, interferometric stimulation, reverse occlusion, simultaneous visual input, returning fibres, retinal grain, internal blur, neurometric function, troland value, callosal band, overall visual system, pigmented ferrets, pooling kernel, salience operator, nondeprived eye, decrement stimulus, rabbit retinal ganglion cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vision Res, New York, Brain Res, Academic Press, Van Essen, Van Sluyters, Horace Barlow, Cambridge University Press, Trends Neurosci, References Barlow, John Wiley, Gibbs Sampler, San Francisco, Plenum Press, Rose-de Vries, The Ferrier Lecture, Markov Random Field, National Eye Institute, Optica Acta, Pergamon Press, College Park, Human Neurobiol, References Adelson, Spatial Frequency Fig, University of Maryland New!
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Attempts to understand the quantum efficiency of vision have resulted in three distinct measures of efficiency. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
callosal pattern, decussation line, uncrossed ganglion cells, retinal incidence, reverse occluded, uncrossed terminals, corneal photons, daily occlusion, detector handicapped, interferometric stimulation, reverse occlusion, simultaneous visual input, returning fibres, retinal grain, internal blur, neurometric function, troland value, callosal band, overall visual system, pigmented ferrets, pooling kernel, salience operator, nondeprived eye, decrement stimulus, rabbit retinal ganglion cells Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vision Res, New York, Brain Res, Academic Press, Van Essen, Van Sluyters, Horace Barlow, Cambridge University Press, Trends Neurosci, References Barlow, John Wiley, Gibbs Sampler, San Francisco, Plenum Press, Rose-de Vries, The Ferrier Lecture, Markov Random Field, National Eye Institute, Optica Acta, Pergamon Press, College Park, Human Neurobiol, References Adelson, Spatial Frequency Fig, University of Maryland New!
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- Visual Neuroscience by J. D. Pettigrew on 4 pages
- Physical and Biological Processing of Images (Springer Series in Information Sciences) by O. J. Braddick on 4 pages
- Cerebral Cortex: Volume 8A: Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part I by Edward G. Jones on page 233, page 344, and page 422
- Signal Detection and Recognition by Human Observers by John A. Swets on page 23, page 317, and page 439
- Progress in Retinal Research by N. N. Osborne on page 130, page 168, and page 194
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- Perception of the Visual Environment by Ronald G. Boothe on page 186, page 187, and page 190
- Perceptual Learning (Bradford Books) by Manfred Fahle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion? (Journal of Consciousness Studies Controversies in Science & the Humanities) by Alva Noe on page 34, and page 101
- Perception as Bayesian Inference by David C. Knill in Front Matter, and page 448
- Unsupervised Learning: Foundations of Neural Computation (Computational Neuroscience) by Geoffrey Hinton on page 14
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