4.1. Robustness in Visual Tasks

Visual information makes up about 75 percent of all the sensorial information received by a person during a lifetime. This information is processed not only efficiently but also transparently. Our awe of visual perception was perhaps the best captured by the 17th-century British essayist Joseph Addison in an essay on imagination [1].

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

The ultimate goal of computer vision is to mimic human visual perception. Therefore, in the broadest sense, robustness ...

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