"To understand the relationship between behavior and brain one has to begin by defining the function, or computational…"

"Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and no…"

"A representation is a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a spe…"

"The critical act in formulating computational theories turns out to be the discovery of valid constraints on the way …"

"Vision is the process of discovering from images what is present in the world, and where it is."

"The abstract properties of this mapping are defined precisely, and its appropriateness and adequacy for the task at h…"

"In order to understand bird flight, we have to understand aerodynamics; only then does the structure of feathers and …"

"[If] we can experimentally isolate a process and show that it can still work well, then it cannot require complex int…"

"When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the proble…"

"I am not sure that Marr would agree, but I am tempted to add learning as the very top level of understanding, above t…"