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Looking back at the history of computer vision over recent years we can see how this area of research has evolved. Initially, in the early seventies, researchers were essentially involved in image processing. This mainly involved image transformations aimed at enhancing image quality and detecting image features. During the eighties, researchers turned their attention to the recovery of the three-dimensional scene information derived from two-dimensional images, based on geometric and photometric models of the imaging process. The nineties have been mainly characterised by the study of the integration of image analysis and synthesis to produce versatile visualisation techniques, namely image media processing, and by the integration of visual perception and purposive action to perform intelligent tasks, namely purposive vision. 1
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Adorni, G., Cagnoni, S., Mordonini, M. (1999). Purposive Visual Perception and Co-Operative Behaviour: Some Issues for the Design of Physical Agents. In: Cantoni, V., Di Gesù, V., Setti, A., Tegolo, D. (eds) Human and Machine Perception 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4809-6_11
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