Vision: coding and efficiency

Blakemore, Colin

ISBN 10: 0521447690 / ISBN 13: 9780521447690

Published by Cambridge, University Press, 1993

About this Item

paperbound, small 4to 448 pp., ills. efficiency of the visual pathway; colour; brightness, adaptation and contrast; depth and texture; motion; from image to object; contributions by may authors; very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vision: coding and efficiency
• Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521447690
• ISBN 13: 9780521447690
• Binding: Soft cover

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Book Description

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.