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The purpose of this chapter is to review briefly some of the early theories of vision, to discuss some simple visual experiments that vividly demonstrate properties of the eye, and to discuss several current models of vision.
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Kelsey, C.A. (1997). Detection of Vision Information. In: Hendee, W.R., Wells, P.N.T. (eds) The Perception of Visual Information. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1836-4_2
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