This volume is a collection of reports on work in computer and biological vision. The work is supported by the ESPRIT Basic Research project INSIGHT, in which an interdisciplinary group of scientists are integrating techniques and results from computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, and psychophysics into a coherent framework to study general purpose vision systems.

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This volume is a collection of reports on work in computerand biological vision. The work is supported by the ESPRITBasic Research project INSIGHT, in which aninterdisciplinary group of scientists are integratingtechniques and results from computer science, mathematics,neuroscience, and psychophysics into a coherent frameworkto study general purpose vision systems.The methods reported in the volume range from anatomical andphysiological studies to psychophysical, algorithmic,mathematical, and simulation techniques. Particular topicsdiscussed include optic flow, texture, 3D surfaces, cueconvergence, segmentation, corner detection, and multiscalerepresentations.The main feature of the book is its interdisciplinarynature. It includes an approximately equal number ofcontributions from biological and computer sciences, wherebiology istaken to include neuroscience, psychophysics, andperceptual studies.

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Local Operations: The Embodiment of Geometry.- The Analysis of Motion Signals and the Nature of Processing in the Primate Visual System.- Motion Perception and Eye Movement Control.- Computational Aspects of Motion Perception in Natural and Artificial Vision Systems.- Four Applications of Differential Geometry to Computer Vision.- Geometry of Vision.- A Method of Obtaining the Relative Positions of 4 Points from 3 Perspective Projections.- Direct Estimation of Optical Flow and of Its Derivates.- The Cracking Plate and Its Parallel Implementation.- The Perception and Representation of Depth and Slant in Stereoscopic Surfaces.- Experiments on Stereo and Texture Cue Combination in Human Vision Using Quasi-Neutral Viewing.- The Analysis of Natural Texture Patterns.- Segmenting Textures of Curved-Line Elements.- Extraction of Shape Features and Experiments on Cue Integration.- Appendix I: Addresses.- Appendix II: Curricula Vitae.