Seeing in Depth

These two volumes provide a detailed review of all aspects of seeing the three-dimensional world. 
Click on yellow heading for Chapter Summaries for each Volume

Volume 1 Basic Mechanisms
Ian P. Howard  

650 pages, 316 figures, 4,600 references

 Volume 2 Depth Perception
Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers

625 pages, 520 figures, 2,600 references

No other book covers this topic so widely and in such detail. The book  will be of interest to people doing research in space perception, visual neuroscience, optometry, ophthalmology, visual development, animal vision, and computational vision.

The volumes are hardbound in cloth and are sold only as a set.  

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Oxford University Press
New York, USA

 

 "Seeing in Depth" published in 2002, is a sequel to "Binocular Vision and Stereopsis" by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. Published by OUP in 1995. It is broader in scope and twice the size. It contains 7000 references, 800 figures, and 150 photographs of scientists. We published it privately to keep the cost down.

Extracts from reviews
"... these two truly monumental books on seeing in depth comprise some 1300 pages of wisdom and knowledge, feature 137 portraits of vision scientists, and discuss many thousands of publications, while covering a few thousand years of vision research. The first Howard and Rogers book appeared in 1995 under the title ``Binocular vision and stereopsis''. The present version has doubled in size, is cheaper, and reaches a still higher level of integration and a broader coverage. The books simply have to be on the bookshelves or desks of all vision scientists, many neuro-scientists, ophthalmologists, and psychologists, but they are also useful to colleagues in AI, robotics, optics, or to stereophotographers."
Wim van de Grind. Helmholtz Research Institute, Utrecht University.
Perception, 2004, Vol. 33, p. 1149-1150.

"Seeing in Depth is a remarkably comprehensive review of the binocular vision literature, with references to several thousand books and articles from antiquity up to 2001. Those who work in the area of binocular vision should consider adding this two-volume set to their personal libraries, even if they own the 1995 book."
Scott Stevenson, College of Optometry, Houston.
Optometry and Visual Science, 2003, Vol. 80, p. 618.

Reader's comments:
"It is an extraordinarily impressive feat."
Andrew Glennerster, Oxford University.

"A fantastic resource."
Ning Qian, Columbia University.

"I congratulate you for the publication of 'Seeing in Depth'."
Hideo Sakata, Nihon University.

"You have done the field a real service."
Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard Medical School.

"I congratulate you on the completion of this important work. Thank you for undertaking this gargantuan scholarly effort."
John Foley, University of Santa Barbara.


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Last revised:  January 30, 2008