T3D Re: Marr book, "Vision"

[Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:17 AM -0800 11/16/97, Bob Howard wrote:
>By the way John B. had you ever heard of a book I just found in the
>used book shop which studies vision mechanisms with their relevance
>to robot and computerized sensing??? It is titled simply "Vision" by
>David Marr. Published by W. H. Freeman & Co. NYC and Oxford England
>(I thought they were in San Francisco..Scientific American book
>publishers?)  ISBN 0-7167-1567-8 copyright 1982.
>David Marr 1945-1980 late of MIT it says.  BobH

This is probably _the_ classic text on computer vision (amazing that
something published in 1982 could already be a classic, no?).  Marr's work
was very influential in bringing the studies of human & machine vision
together.  Well-written book, too.

-Jim C.

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