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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>It’s a good story – but like most urban myths, only partially true!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>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!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Ilab-users [mailto:ilab-users-bounces@lists.cs.ucsb.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Sweeney<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Four Eyes Lab <ilab-users@lists.cs.ucsb.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> [4eyes] 50 years of computer vision<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The initial project outline is here. I found it interesting to read and figured others may as well <a href="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6125/AIM-100.pdf">https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/6125/AIM-100.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Chris<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>