Book review: ACTIVE VISION. Edited by Andrew Blake and Alan Yuille (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992)

The term "active vision", which began to be used to a significant degree in the second half of the 1980's, has several possible interpretations. Generally speaking, it can be thought of as a reaction against the "passivist" school which regards vision as "the process of discovering from images what is present in the world" (as Marr defined it in his classic book). This reaction can take several forms.