CS 5650/6650
Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics and Visualization Perspective

A Vision Science Library


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The Essential Vision Science Library

David Marr, Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1983

Stephen E. Palmer, Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, MIT Press, 1999

Brian A. Wandel, Foundations of Vision, Sinauer Associates,1995

Steven Yantis, ed., Visual Perception: Essential Readings, Psychology Press, 2000

The (Nowhere) Complete Vision Science Library

All of the above, plus:

Jacob Beck, Barbara Hope, and Azriel Rosenfeld, eds., Human and Machine Vision, Academic Press, 1983

Michael Brady, ed., Computer Vision, North-Holland, 1981

Tom N. Cornsweet, Visual Perception, Academic Press, 1970

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Volume 1 and 2), Dover Publications,1970

David A. Forsyth and Jean Ponce, Computer Vision: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 2002

James J. Gibson, Perception of the Visual World, Houghton Mifflin, 1950

E. Bruce Goldstein, Encyclopedia of Perception, Sage, 2009

E. Bruce Goldstein, Sensation and Perception (6th edition), Wadsworth, 2006

Rafael C. Gonzalez and Richard E. Woods, Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition), Addison-Wesley 2002

James J. Gibson, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, Houghton Mifflin, 1966

Richard L. Gregory, Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (5th edition), Princeton University Press, 1997

Richard L. Gregory, The Intelligent Eye, McGraw-Hill, 1970

Hermann Helmholtz, Treatise on Physiological Optics (Handbuch der physiologischen Optik), Thoemmes Press, 1911/2000

Ian P. Howard, Seeing in Depth -- Volume 1: Basic Mechanisms, I Porteous, 2002

Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers, Seeing in Depth -- Volume 2: Depth Perception, I Porteous, 2002

David H. Hubel, Eye, Brain, and Vision, W. H. Freeman & Co, 1998

Margaret Livingstone and David H. Hubel, Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing, Harry N Abrams, 2002

Steven Pinker, ed., Visual Cognition, MIT Press, 1985

William B. Thompson, Roland W. Fleming, Sarah H. Creem-Regehr, and Jeanine K. Stefanucci, Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective, A K Peters, 2011

Jeremy M. Wolfe, Keith R. Kluender, Dennis M. Levi, Linda M. Bartoshuk, Rachel S. Herz, Roberta L. Klatzky, Susan J. Lederman, and Daniel M. Merfeld, Sensation and Perception (2nd edition), Sinauer, 2008

Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson, and Tom Troscianko, Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception, Oxford University Press, 2006.