Science of Vision

A multidisciplinary and new approach to human vision, from biology to psychology to computation. The book presents new ideas and research, yet will give the nonspecialist a good overview. It can be used as an introductory text for broadly based vision courses at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels.

Inhalt
1: Biophysics and Physiology.- 1 The Visual Pathway: An Introduction to Structure and Organization.- 2 Vertebrate Photoreceptors.- 3 The Vertebrate Retina.- 4 Nested Maps in Macaque Monkey Visual Cortex.- 5 Development of Orderly Connections in the Retinotectal System.- 2: Psychophysics.- 6 Perceptual Aspects of Spatial and Temporal Relationships.- 7 Classical and Modern Psychophysical Studies of Dark and Light Adaptation and Their Relationship to Underlying Retinal Function.- 8 Human Color Perception.- 9 From Visual Structure to Perceptual Function.- 3: Theory and Computation.- 10 Visual Information: Structure and Function.- 11 Computational Vision with Reference to Binocular Stereo Vision.- 12 Computer Vision Analysis of Boundary Images.- 13 A Representation for Qualitative 3-D Object Recognition Integrating Object-Centered and Viewer-Centered Models.- 14 From 2-D Images to 3-D Models.- 15 Applied Machine Vision.