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The Birth of Computer Vision (Paperback)
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The Birth of Computer Vision (Paperback)
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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 Birth of
Computer Vision uncovers these histories and finds connections
between the algorithms, people, and politics at the core of
automating perception today. James E. Dobson reveals how new forms
of computerized surveillance systems, high-tech policing, and
automated decision-making systems have become entangled,
functioning together as a new technological apparatus of social
control. Tracing the development of a series of important
computer-vision algorithms, he uncovers the ideas, worrisome
military origins, and lingering goals reproduced within the code
and the products based on it, examining how they became linked to
one another and repurposed for domestic and commercial uses. Dobson
includes analysis of the Shakey Project, which produced the first
semi-autonomous robot, and the impact of student protest in the
early 1970s at Stanford University, as well as recovering the
computer vision–related aspects of Frank Rosenblatt’s
Perceptron as the crucial link between machine learning and
computer vision. Motivated by the ongoing use of these major
algorithms and methods, The Birth of Computer Vision chronicles the
foundations of computer vision and artificial intelligence, its
major transformations, and the questionable legacy of its origins.
Cover alt text: Two overlapping circles in cream and violet, with
black background. Top is a printed circuit with camera eye; below a
person at a 1977 computer.
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