Introduction

  • Yoshiaki Shirai
Part of the Symbolic Computation book series (SYMBOLIC)

Abstract

The purpose of computer vision is to enable a computer to understand its environment from visual information. Visual information processing holds an important position in the intelligent activities of humans. Computer vision, therefore, has been of interest as a research theme in artificial intelligence (AI), and has been studied from the early stages of AI research.

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

Authors and Affiliations

  • Yoshiaki Shirai
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  1. 1.Computer Vision Section, Computer Science DivisionElectrotechnical LaboratoryNiiharigun Ibaraki, 305Japan

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