Machine Vision
How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World
$30.39
- Paperback
219 pages
- Release Date
25 December 2023
Summary
Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see differently and even to see everything. But each of these new ways of seeing carries its own blind spots.
In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg examines the long history of machine vision. Providing an overview of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509545230 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509545239 |
| Author: | Jill Walker Rettberg |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 219 |
| Release Date: | 25 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 137mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“If you want to understand how machine vision is woven into our lives, from how we perceive the world to how we see ourselves, start here.”
—Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI
“This accessibly written book takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the many ways humans have extended their visual perception beyond their embodied capacities. It carefully considers both the promises of machine vision technologies and their more frightening and destructive potential. A refreshing contribution to our understanding of the entangled, evolving relationship between vision and technology.”
—Kelly Gates, University of California San Diego
“The nature of the influence exerted by machine vision on society as a whole will be all the more fruitfully considered and discussed with the help of [Rettberg’s] book, which is written in clear and accessible language.”
—c’t, Magazin für Computertechnik
Jill Walker Rettberg
Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.
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