Vision: Coding and Efficiency

Blakemore, Colin [Ed.]

ISBN 10: 0521364590 / ISBN 13: 9780521364591

Published by Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 1990

About this Item

A very good copy of the first hard cover edition, lacking a dust-jacket (no doubt as issued). Save for a previous owner's name printed modestly in ink on the front endpaper the text is wholly unmarked, pristine. Binding bright and fresh in appearance, with some unobtrusive rubbing at the corners. A handsome copy of the increasingly hard-to-find hard cover edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vision: Coding and Efficiency
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521364590
• ISBN 13: 9780521364591
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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.