The Past, Present and Future of Feature Detectors

If one knows where ideas have come from and how a subject has developed one gets a much clearer view of which direction you are pointing and what the next problems may be. I shall therefore start by looking at the past history of feature detectors, then I shall talk a bit about my present work, and I shall conclude with a brief guess at the future.

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