Abstract
Visual perception is the ability to detect light and interpret it. The early explanation of vision was provided by two major ancient Greek schools of thought.One believed in the “emission theory” championed by scholars like Euclid and Ptolemy, according to which vision occurs when light rays emanate from the eyes and intercepted by visual objects. The other school championed by scholars like Aristotle and Galen, believed in “intromission” where vision occurs by something entering the eyes representative of the object [1]. The Persian scholar Ibn al-Haytham (‘Alhazen’) is credited for refining the intromission theory into the modernly accepted theory of perception of vision [2]. In his most influential “Book of Optics”, he defines vision to be due to the light from objects entering the eye [3], [4].
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Sarkar, M., Theuwissen, A. (2013). Introduction. In: A Biologically Inspired CMOS Image Sensor. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 461. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34901-0_1
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