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Complexity, Vision, and Attention

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What does it mean for a problem to be complex? One dimension of complexity is computational complexity. This chapter focuses on how this type of complexity affects the design of perceptual systems. Many natural problems have optimal solutions that are believed to be computationally intractable in any implementation, machine or neural. Thus, the computational complexity of a particular solution greatly affects its realizability, and thus its plausibility. The focus here will be on problems in vision.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Jenkin

  2. Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Laurence Harris

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Tsotsos, J.K. (2001). Complexity, Vision, and Attention. In: Jenkin, M., Harris, L. (eds) Vision and Attention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4_6

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