Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information...

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David Marr (Late Professor of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Shimon Ullman (Professor and Head of Department, Weizmann Institute of Science)

Vision

A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information...

David Marr (Late Professor of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Shimon Ullman (Professor and Head of Department, Weizmann Institute of Science), Tomaso A. Poggio (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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MIT Press
09 July 2010

Cognition & cognitive psychology; Drug-induced states; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology

Series: Vision

Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.

Available again, an influential book that offers a framework for understanding visual perception and considers fundamental questions about the brain and its functions.

David Marr's posthumously published Vision (1982) influenced a generation of brain and cognitive scientists, inspiring many to enter the field. In Vision, Marr describes a general framework for understanding visual perception and touches on broader questions about how the brain and its functions can be studied and understood. Researchers from a range of brain and cognitive sciences have long valued Marr's creativity, intellectual power, and ability to integrate insights and data from neuroscience, psychology, and computation. This MIT Press edition makes Marr's influential work available to a new generation of students and scientists.

In Marr's framework, the process of vision constructs a set of representations, starting from a description of the input image and culminating with a description of three-dimensional objects in the surrounding environment. A central theme, and one that has had far-reaching influence in both neuroscience and cognitive science, is the notion of different levels of analysis-in Marr's framework, the computational level, the algorithmic level, and the hardware implementation level.

Now, thirty years later, the main problems that occupied Marr remain fundamental open problems in the study of perception. Vision provides inspiration for the continuing efforts to integrate knowledge from cognition and computation to understand vision and the brain.

By: David Marr (Late Professor of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Afterword by: Tomaso A. Poggio (Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Foreword by: Shimon Ullman (Professor and Head of Department Weizmann Institute of Science)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9780262514620
ISBN 10: 0262514621
Series: Vision
Pages: 428
Publication Date: 09 July 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Courtnay Marr (1945-1980), one of the originators of the field of computational neuroscience, was Professor of Psychology at MIT. Shimon Ullman is Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Tomaso A. Poggio is Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he is also Director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines and Codirector of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning. He is coeditor of Perceptual Learning (MIT Press).