Abstract
The processing power of the human visual system is truly awe-inspiring. Hundreds of millions of years of natural selection have led to the evolution of a visual system whose rapidity and accuracy is quite breathtaking. Images flashed on a screen can often be identified on the basis of only 100 to 150 ms of processing (see Thorpe & Imbert, 1989). Furthermore, the number of different objects and scenes that can be identified by the average human is probably well over 100,000. Such levels of performance make the processing capacities of current image processing technology look positively feeble. And the contrast between biological and artificial vision is made even more striking when one takes into account the fact that the components used by biological visual systems, namely neurons, are several orders of magnitude slower than the components used in current electronics: neurons typically operate with a maximum pulse rate of around 100 Hz, whereas even the humble PC uses components that operate with a clock rate of 10 MHz or more.
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Thorpe, S.J. (1991). Image Processing by the Human Visual System. In: Garcia, G., Herman, I. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76286-4_8
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