During my academic lifetime, I have read many textbooks and articles concerned with the various subjects of computer science, and I now expect a familiar format --- equations, cryptic explanations, and a narrow scope --- which can, at times, be rather tedious. In Computational Vision, Harry Wechsler has created a reading environment that captures the reader's interest and imagination by describing his insights from philosophy, biology, and the arts, and yet provides the necessary rigor found in the traditional format. He is also quite bold in stating his beliefs about the current state and the future directions of the vision sciences. Because of the complexity and inaccessibility of the biological vision systems that computational vision seeks to emulate, one would surmise that introspection and subjective opinion would be the norm, but this is not the case, Hopefully, readers of Wechsler's book will realize that by adopting this style, the vision community can only benefit from the stimulation of seeking to prove or disprove various hypotheses.
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