[4eyes] 50 years of computer vision

[Tobias Hollerer]

Larry Roberts was in charge of Al Gore?
Cheers,

     T.

On 7/13/16 1:23 PM, Matthew Turk 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.
>
> It’s a good story – but like most urban myths, only partially true!
>
> 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.)
>
> 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!)
>
> Matthew
>
> *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
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
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Tobias Hollerer
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