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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2021

Andrew Fabian
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Janet Gibson
Affiliation:
Darwin College, Cambridge
Mike Sheppard
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Simone Weyand
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Andrew Blake
Affiliation:
Samsung AI Research Centre
Carolin Crawford
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Paul Fletcher
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Sophie Hackford
Affiliation:
Wired Magazine
Anya Hurlbert
Affiliation:
Newcastle University
Dan-Eric Nilsson
Affiliation:
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
Carlo Rovelli
Affiliation:
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Summary

The 34th Darwin College Lecture Series, held in 2019, addressed Vision. The aim of these lectures, as with all the Darwin College Lectures, was to provide an interdisciplinary study. The lectures range widely: they survey the mechanisms of visual perception, and the evolution of eyes; they address the mental processes underpinning vision, and the nature and significance of private visions and hallucinations; they explore the vision and imagery of artists and of scientists in their endeavours to elucidate the world. The discussions encompass astronomical observation, which enables us to look back over the evolution of the Universe to the earliest epochs, and they extend to foresight, with a vision of a digital future. We conclude this volume with a review of the current developments of computer vision, which increasingly underpin our day-to-day experience of surveillance and of automation.

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Vision , pp. 1 - 4
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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