Dear Colleagues,
Here are the recommendations for graduate-level Visual Perception textbooks
that I received in August 1997. A copy of this list is also available at
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marshall/viscrs-bks-97.html. This list supplements
the list from four years ago, which is available at
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marshall/viscrs-bks-93.html.
Thanks again to everyone who replied!
o Mike Landy
o David Heeger
o David Simmons
o Hans Strasburger
o Mark Georgeson
o Michael von Grunau
o Bart Anderson
o Curtis Baker
o Christopher Tyler
o Anonymous
o Vengu Lakshminarayanan
o Oliver Braddick
--Jonathan Marshall
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:55:09 -0400
From: msl@wotan.cns.nyu.edu (Michael Landy)
Subject: books
Someone just pointed out to me that the Perception book of Bruce & Green,
which I had found to be pretty odd in its coverage and viewpoint, has a new
edition with an additional author (Georgeson). It looks quite good and I'm
planning on using it for the same advanced undergraduate course this Spring.
For doctoral Perception, on the other hand, I don't use a text. I make them
read the articles... ;)
Mike Landy
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:58:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Heeger (heeger@white.Stanford.EDU)
Subject: textbooks on vision
Brian Wandell's book "Foundations of Vision" (Sinauer) is
excellent.
- DH
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:50:43 +0100
From: D.R.Simmons@gcal.ac.uk (D R Simmons)
Subject: visual perception book
I would highly recommend:
Bruce, V., Green, P.R. and Georgeson, M.A. (1996) "Visual Perception:
Physiology, Psychology, Ecology" 3rd Edition. Published by Psychology Press
(Laurence Erlbaum Associate), Hove, UK.
The thing I like in particular about this book is that it deals separately
with three different approaches to understanding visual perception and
discusses the pros and cons of each. Possibly some of the more technical
information in the chapters on depth and motion are a bit advanced for
beginners, but the details are bang up to date. My only complaint is that it
does not deal with colour vision at all, so it can never be the sole basis
for a vision course.
David Simmons
Dr. David R. Simmons
Department of Vision Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University
City Campus
Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow G4 0BA
SCOTLAND
e-mail: D.R.Simmons@gcal.ac.uk
Tel: [+44] (0)141 331 3389 (direct line)
[+44] (0)141 331 3379 (dep sec)
Fax: [+44] (0)141 331 3387
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 14:43:30 +0200
From: hans@imp.med.uni-muenchen.de (Hans Strasburger)
Subject: visual perception textbooks
A new book is Martin Tovee: 'An introduction to the visual system'
(Cambridge Univ. Press). My favorite is book for teaching is still Sekuler
& Blake's.
I know it will not help you in your course :-) but will you add in your
survey a section "books translated"? The only serious one I have found
translated to German so far is Goldstein's.
Cheers --
Hans Strasburger
Magdeburg & Muenchen, Germany
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:13:53 +0000
From: M.A.Georgeson@bham.ac.uk (Mark Georgeson)
Subject: Books on visual perception
I may be a tad biassed here but I think that:
Bruce V, Green P R, Georgeson M A (1996) Visual Perception: Physiology,
Psychology and Ecology, 3rd edition. Hove & London: Erlbaum (UK) Taylor &
Francis.
is pretty useful, and certainly oriented towards graduate-level readers.
It's up-to-date and has a broad coverage, with in-depth treatment of
selected topics. Perhaps you'll get feedback from others on how they rate
its usefulness and quality.
Yours, Mark Georgeson
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:53:40 +0000 (HELP)
From: vgrunau@vax2.concordia.ca (Michael von Grunau)
For the last couple of years I have used Zeki's book "A Vision of the Brain"
in an advanced perception course, supplemented by some other readings. This
is not a text book as such, but was generally well liked.
M. von Grunau
Michael von Grunau
Department of Psychology
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Que., Canada
H4B 1R6
Tel: 514-848-2190
-2225
Fax: 514-848-4545
vgrunau@vax2.concordia.ca
http://www-psychology.concordia.ca
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:24:53 -0500
From: bart@psyche.mit.edu (Barton L. Anderson)
You should check out the new book by Bruce, Green & Georgeson. Covers all
of early vision, filers, etc., through perceptual organization, and
ecological approaches. Quite good.
Bart
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:56:34 -0400
From: "Curtis L. Baker" (curtis@spot.vision.mcgill.ca)
Subject: grad vision book
Hi - A quite good choice would be "Foundations of Vision", by Brian Wandell.
It has more about color and less about neurophysiology than I would consider
ideal, but is overall the best I know.
- Curtis Baker
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 97 10:04:11 PDT
To: marshall@cs.unc.edu
From: cwt@skivs.ski.org (Christopher Tyler)
Subject: Perception book
I'd like to offer my "Human Symmetry Perception and its Computational
Analysis", C.W. Tyler (Ed.), VSP Press: The Netherlands.
Order through my website: www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/symmbook.
Thanks,
Christopher Tyler
Christopher W. Tyler, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
2232 Webster Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 USA
Ph. 415-561-1640 Fax 415-561-1610
Email: cwt@skivs.ski.org
Home Page: http://www.ski.org/cwt.html
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From: (anonymous by request)
I found Brian Wandell's book to be quite bad. Lots of obscure terms used
but not defined. Lots of uses of linear algebra so as to obscure rather
than enlighten. Ridiculous exercises (e.g. "read thus-and-so JOSA article
and criticize the methods").
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From: vengu@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu (Vengu Lakshminarayanan)
Subject: Perception books
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:12:40 -0500 (CDT)
The books that I use in the visual perception course in our grad
physiological optics program are:
Brian wandell, Foundations of Vision, Sinauer, sunderland, MA., 1995
Chapters from: Hand Book of Optics, second edn., Optical Society of America,
Volume 1; especially Part 7: Vision (I also use this for an experimental
methods course).
A somewhat lower level book (in my opinion a weak Cornsweet) is: Steven H.
Schwartz, Visual perception, a clinical orientation, Appleton & Lange,
Norwal, Conn., 1994 (this is widely used as a text for monocular sensory
processes of vision courses in optometry schools).
Tom Norton (Optometry, UA Birmingham) and Jim Bailey (Southern Calif.
College of Optometry, Fullerton) are putting together a book (with chapters
by a number of people, including yours truly) on visual perception (a sort
of updated Cornsweet) which is to be published next year by Butterworth's.
Hope this helps!
Vengu
-- Vengu Lakshminarayanan School of Optometry vengu@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu University of Missouri -- St. Louis voice: (314)-516-6533 8001 Natural Bridge Road fax : (314)-516-6712 St. Louis, MO 63121-4499----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: vengu@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu (Vengu Lakshminarayanan) Subject: Perception books Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:32:22 -0500 (CDT)
I forgot to include Richard Clement, Introduction to Vision Science, Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1993. Somewhat rigorous mathematically (inclduing Fourier analysis, Laplace transforms, color spaces, matrix optics, etc.). Not bad!
Vengu Lakshminarayanan
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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 97 01:39:37 PDT From: ucjtsol (ucjtsol@ucl.ac.uk) Subject: Re: CVNet - Summary of responses on visual perception textbooks
A book which may not be very widely known in N America is Bruce, Green & Georgeson: Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology & Ecology. The new (3rd) edition is v up to date and has drifted to a slighhtly higher level than earlier editions - suitable I would judge for an introductory graduate course in a US context. Published by Psychology Press (formerly Lawrence Erlbaum).
Oliver Braddick Professor of Psychology Mail: Psychology Dept, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Phone: 0171 380 7574 or 0171 387 7050 ext 5350 [international +44 171..etc] Fax: 0171 380 7576
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