[4eyes] 50 years of computer vision

[Chris Sweeney]

I figured you would have some first-hand experience with this myth/story!

It will be interesting to see if years from now we hear similar fairy tale
rumors about the origins of AR/VR through people like Jaron Lanier, Steven
Feiner, Tom Caudell, Thomas Furness, and surely many many more.

If we start a catchy story about how 4 Eyes was the key to inventing VR
then maybe it will catch on and become accepted history in 30+ years? :)

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:23 PM Matthew Turk <mturk at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> This story has largely become accepted history (or at least accepted CV
> folklore), but the reality – as told by Marvin Minsky (personally, to a
> class I was in) – is that they were not so naïve. The memo describes a
> specific early computer vision goal and project, not object recognition in
> general (or as some people tell the story, not computer vision in general).
> (Note the goal to construct “a” significant part of “a” vision system.)
> Undergraduate Gerald Sussman was put in charge of the summer project to
> bring in fresh eyes to the group and shake things up a bit.
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> It’s a good story – but like most urban myths, only partially true!
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> By the way, the more appropriate “birth” of computer vision is actually
> the 1963 PhD thesis of Larry Roberts at MIT (“Machine perception of
> three-dimensional solids”). (Larry Roberts went on to run the project at
> DARPA that invented the internet.)
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> Nevertheless… MIT’s Summer Vision Project is a great story, and it’s
> fascinating to see the progress since the 1960s. (And to note the many
> challenges ahead as well!)
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>                 Matthew
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> *From:* Ilab-users [mailto:ilab-users-bounces at lists.cs.ucsb.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Chris Sweeney
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:54 PM
> *To:* Four Eyes Lab <ilab-users at lists.cs.ucsb.edu>
> *Subject:* [4eyes] 50 years of computer vision
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> I recently learned that we just had the 50 year anniversary of the famous
> computer vision project at MIT. Some people consider this to be a
> ceremonial "birth" of computer vision.
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> The project task was simple to describe: recognize objects in an
> image. Amazingly, they thought this task was simple enough that it was
> assigned to undergraduates as a summer project! Sounds suitable for an
> undergraduate in 1966 to solve object recognition in a few months, right?
> Fast forward 50 years and there is literally BILLIONS of dollars and
> thousands of people working to solve this problem still.
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> The initial project outline is here. I found it interesting to read and
> figured others may as well
> https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6125/AIM-100.pdf
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> -Chris
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