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Vision: Human and Electronic

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The series of lectures on the process of vision in both human and electronic systems v/as based predominantly on a number of publications in scattered parts of the literature. Several of these papers are reproduced here and serve, at least, the convenience of juxtaposition.

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Rose, A. (1970). Vision: Human and Electronic. In: Low, W., Schieber, M. (eds) Applied Solid State Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1854-5_4

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