Thisbookcameoriginallyfromlecturenotesusedtoteachstudentsoncomputational/theoreticalvision.Somereadersmayfindthatapaper,Zhaoping(2006)“Theoreticalunderstandingoftheearlyvisualprocessesbydatacompressionanddataselection”inNetwork:Computationinneuralsystems17(4):301-334,isanabbreviationofsomepartsinchapter2-4ofthisbook