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1 - Introduction to the World of Vision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Gabriel Kreiman
Gabriel Kreiman
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Understanding how the brain works constitutes the greatest scientific challenge of our times, arguably the greatest challenge of all times. We have sent spaceships to peek outside of our solar system, and we study galaxies far away to build theories about the origin of the universe. We have built powerful accelerators to scrutinize the secrets of subatomic particles. We have uncovered the secrets to heredity hidden in the billions of base pairs in DNA. But we still have to figure out how the three pounds of brain tissue inside our skulls work to enable us to do physics, biology, music, literature, and politics.

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Biological and Computer Vision , pp. 1 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

• Hubel, D. (1979). The brain. Scientific American 241: 45–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
• Marr, D. (1982). Vision. San Francisco: Freeman Publishers.Google Scholar
• Parker, A. (2004). In the blink of an eye: how vision sparked the big bang of evolution. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar
• Poggio, T.; and Anselmi, F. (2016). Visual cortex and deep networks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
• Ullman, S. (1996). High-level vision. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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