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d. 1980 England

David Courtnay Marr (19 January 1945 – 17 November 1980) was a British neuroscientist and psychologist, known for integrating results from psychology, artificial intelligence, and neurophysiology into new models of visual processing.

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

The primitives of a representation are the most elementary units of shape information available in a representation.

The abstract properties of this mapping are defined precisely, and its appropriateness and adequacy for the task at hand are demonstrated.

Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information.

Steven Yantis (2001)

In order to understand bird flight, we have to understand aerodynamics; only then does the structure of feathers and the different shapes of bird's wings make sense.

To understand the relationship between behavior and brain one has to begin by defining the function, or computational goal, of a complete behavior. Only then can a neuroscientist determine how the brain achieves that goal.

Paul W. Glimcher (2004)

The critical act in formulating computational theories turns out to be the discovery of valid constraints on the way the world is structured -- constraints that provide sufficient information to allow the processing to succeed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Marr (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.