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If one knows where ideas have come from and how a subject has developed one gets a much clearer view of which direction you are pointing and what the next problems may be. I shall therefore start by looking at the past history of feature detectors, then I shall talk a bit about my present work, and I shall conclude with a brief guess at the future.
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Barlow, H.B. (1982). The Past, Present and Future of Feature Detectors. In: Albrecht, D.G. (eds) Recognition of Pattern and Form. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93199-4_2
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