- The following two books
are recommended for computer vision scientists attempting to move toward human
models of perception and recognition:
Active Vision: The Psychology of
Looking and Seeing [Amazon
link]
John M Findlay and Iain D Gilchrist
1) Compact
overview of essential eye-movement studies.
2)
A convincing summary of arguments against the excessive ‘use’ of attentional shifts.
Vision Science: Photons to
Phenomenology [Amazon
link]
Stephen E Palmer
1) An opus, settled at the interface of psychology, neuroscience
and computer science.
2) Explains the topic as a whole.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~plab/book.htm
- The following two are
recommended when plunging into psychophysical aspects of vision:
Visual Perception: Physiology,
Psychology, Ecology [Amazon
link]
Vicki Bruce,
Mark A. Georgeson and Patrick R. Green
Covers rather early stages of vision.
http://www.psypress.com/visualperception/
Foundations of Vision [Amazon
link]
Brian
A. Wandell
Covers also early stages of vision.
- Books for natural
scientists moving toward computer science/computer vision:
Digital Signal Processing: A Practical
Guide for Engineers and Scientists
Steven Smith
Contains only the essential equations for purposes of clarity.
Machine Vision [Amazon
link]
Ramesh Jain, Rangachar Kasturi and Brian G. Schunck
The
basics simply explained.
- For anyone trying to grasp
the complexity of representation:
Society of Mind [Amazon
link]
Marvin Minsky
On
the representational complexity of the brain