Detection and Recognition of Simple Spatial Forms

In spite of the large number of intelligent, energetic people engaged in the study of vision, it often seems that we advance our understanding of this process at an excruciatingly slow pace. Why is this so? I believe that it is the fault of our models. We have been seduced by the simplicity of explanation available in the physical sciences, and try to describe the vast complexity of vision with models that would not do justice to a sphere rolling down an inclined plane.

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