On the Purpose of Low-Level Vision,
Abstract
The article advances the thesis that the purpose of low-level vision is to encode symbolically all of the useful information contained in an intensity array, using a vocabulary of very low-level symbols. Subsequent processes should have access only to this symbolic description. The reason is one of computational expediency. It allows the low-level processes to run almost autonomously; and it greatly simplifies the application of criteria to an image, whose representation in terms of conditions on the initial intensities, or on simple measurements made from them, is very cumbersome.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- ADA012392
Entities
People
- David Marr
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology