David Marr: Processing

David Marr was British neuroscientist and psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on processing.

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“The critical act in formulating computational theories turns out to be the discovery of valid constraints on the way the world is structured -- constraints that provide sufficient information to allow the processing to succeed.”

David Marr

Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes, 1978

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“Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information.”

David Marr

as cited in Steven Yantis (2001) Visual Perception: Essential Readings, p. 117.
Vision, 1982

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“Vision is the process of discovering from images what is present in the world, and where it is.”

David Marr

Source: Vision, 1982, p. 3, cited in: M. R. Bennett, ‎P. M. S. Hacker (2012). History of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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“[If] we can experimentally isolate a process and show that it can still work well, then it cannot require complex interaction with other parts of vision and can therefore be understood relatively well on its own.”

David Marr

Vision, 1982

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