Bmvc91: Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, Organised for the British Machine Vision Association by the Turing Institute 24-26 September 199

Mowforth, Peter

ISBN 10: 354019715X / ISBN 13: 9783540197157

Published by Springer, 1991

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434 pages. 9.53x6.69x0.99 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bmvc91: Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, Organised for the British Machine Vision Association by the Turing Institute 24-26 September 199
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 354019715X
• ISBN 13: 9783540197157
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

Lewis Carroll once wrote a story about a king who wanted a very accurate map of his kingdom. The king had a pathologically fastidious eye for detail and consequently decided that the map was to be produced at a scale of 1:1. The scribes dutifully set to and, in time, the map was made. The map carried details of every tree, every rock and every blade of grass throughout the entire land. The problem occurred when they tried to use -it. First of all, the map was extraordinarily difficult to open out and line up with the countryside. Its sheer bulk meant that it took whole armies to carry it and a great host of bureaucrats and technicians to maintain the information. Such was the detail of the map that as soon as the wind blew strongly, whole sections needed to be redrawn. What was worse was that all the farmers protested because the map completely cut out the light from the sun and all the crops died. Eventually the howls of protest became so strong that the king was forced to take action. He did away with the old paper copy and decided to use the kingdom itself as the map. All lived happily ever after. There are, at least, two morals to this tale. First, you are almost certainly doomed to failure if you do not get the representation of the problem right.