The Birth of Computer Vision

by James E. Dobson

A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies

Today's most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and '60s Cold War culture--and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517914205
• ISBN13: 9781517914202
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"