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A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies

Today's most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and '60s Cold War culture--and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Vision uncovers these histories and finds connections between the algorithms, people, and politics at the core of automating perception today.

James E. Dobson reveals how new forms of computerized surveillance systems, high-tech policing, and automated decision-making systems have become entangled, functioning together as a new technological apparatus of social control. Tracing the development of a series of important computer-vision algorithms, he uncovers the ideas, worrisome military origins, and lingering goals reproduced within the code and the products based on it, examining how they became linked to one another and repurposed for domestic and commercial uses. Dobson includes analysis of the Shakey Project, which produced the first semi-autonomous robot, and the impact of student protest in the early 1970s at Stanford University, as well as recovering the computer vision-related aspects of Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron as the crucial link between machine learning and computer vision.

Motivated by the ongoing use of these major algorithms and methods, The Birth of Computer Vision chronicles the foundations of computer vision and artificial intelligence, its major transformations, and the questionable legacy of its origins.


Cover alt text: Two overlapping circles in cream and violet, with black background. Top is a printed circuit with camera eye; below a person at a 1977 computer.

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  • Title The Birth of Computer Vision
  • Author James E. Dobson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Minnesota Press
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781517914219 / 1517914213
  • Weight 2.73 lbs (1.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.35 x 0.55 in (21.21 x 13.59 x 1.40 cm)
  • Category Computers - General Information
  • Library of Congress subjects Computer vision - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022040925
  • Dewey Decimal Code 006.370

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James E. Dobson is assistant professor of English and creative writing and director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College. His most recent books are Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology and Moonbit.

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