The Thinking Eye

Prof. Matteo Pasquinelli with Tilmann Rödiger

The Thinking Eye On the Evolution of Machine Vision into Neural Networks

Frog Biological eye

Gestalt / Visual field neuro ns

1943 McCulloch Pitts 1947 McCulloch Pitts visual field = digital image

1957 Rosenblatt 1959 Lettvin et al. 1961 Rosenblatt

Perceptron Artificial eye

Pattern / Visual field artific

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1969 Minsky Papert digital image = generic file

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First winter of neural networks

1986 Rumelhart

Multi-Layered Perceptron Statistical “eye”

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Pattern / Database

n-dimensional Pattern / / n-dimensional Datascape