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Computer Vision: Past and Future

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“What does it mean to see? The plain man’s answer (and Aristotle’s too) would be to know what is where by looking.” These introductory words in the seminal book of David Marr [54] capture the essence of what researchers in computer vision have been trying to make computers do for almost half a century. In this paper we will outline the development of the field, emphasising the last ten years, and the discuss what the challenges in the field are.

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Eklundh, JO., Christensen, H.I. (2001). Computer Vision: Past and Future. In: Wilhelm, R. (eds) Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44577-3_23

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