This page contains a list of textbooks for the teaching perception, including information about the cost, publisher, focus, and recommendations, arranged alphabetically, by author. Please contact me with new relevant information and opinions. I'd be happy to incorporate them.
Author: Bruce, V. & Green, P., and Georgeson, M.A.
Title Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology, & Ecology
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0863774512
Year: 1996
Focus: Marr's computational approach, Gibson's ecological approach to perception, and some psychophysics & neuroscience.
Level: Advanced undergraduates or beginning graduate students.
Author: Buser, P. & Imbert, M. (translated by R.H. Kay)
Title: Vision
Publisher: MIT Press (Bradford Books)
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262023369
Year: 1992
Cost: $47.50, via MIT Press (Bradford Books)
Focus: Physiology of vision and some psychophysics.
Author: Churchland, P. S. & Sejnowski, T. J.
Title: The Computational Brain
Publisher: Bradford Books
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262031884
Year: 1994
Cost: $19.95, via http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-legacy.tcl
Focus: Computational neuroscience, neural network models.
Level: See http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-legacy.tcl
Author: Clark, J. and Yuille, A
Title: Data Fusion for Sensory Information Processing.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Press.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0792391209/
Year: 1990
Cost: $75.50
Author: Craig, J. J.
Title: Introduction to Robotics
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201095289/
Year: new version expected
Focus: Science and engineering of mechanical manipulation, CAD-CAM and Controls .
Author:De Valois, R. L. and DeValois, K. K.
Title: Spatial Vision
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019506657X
Year: 1996
Cost: $50.00
Focus: Spatial vision.
Author: Dowling, J. E.
Title: Neurons and Networks: An Introduction to Neuroscience
Publisher: Belknap Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674608208/
Year: 1992
Cost: $49.95
Focus: Neuroscience.
Level: Undergraduate.
Author: Dowling, J. E.
Title: The Retina: An Approachable Part of the Brain
Publisher: Belknap Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674766806
Year: 1987
Cost: $51.95
Focus: Under construction.
Level: Under construction.
Author: Freeman, J. A. & Skapura, D. M.
Title: Neural Networks: Algorithms, Applications and Programming Techniques
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201513765
Year: 1991
Cost:$55.90
Focus: Neural-network architectures
Level: Graduate or advanced undergraduate computer-science or engineering students.
Author: Frisby, J. F.
Title: Seeing: Illusion, Brain, and Mind
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192176722
Year: 1979
Cost: $22.50
Focus: Neural processing of visual information.
Level: Undergrduate
Author: Goldstein, E. B.
Title: Sensation and Perception
Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0534776906/
Year: 1999
Cost: $71.95
Focus: Physiological, and some other aspects of visual perception.
Ancillary Materials: CD ROM with animations and demonstrations.
Translation available: German
Author: Gordon, I.
Title: Theories of Visual Perception
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471968250
Year: 1997
Cost: $39.97
Focus: Psychophysics, neurobiology and computational theories.
Author: Gross, C.
Title: Brain Vision Memory : Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262571358
Year: 1999
Cost: $13.20
Focus: history
Author: Haralick, R. M. & Shapiro, L. G.
Title: Computer and Robot Vision
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201569434
Year: 1992
Cost: $72.25 (Vol 1) and $67.75 (Vol. 2)
Focus: Computational approach to vision.
Author: Hecht-Nielsen, R.
Title: Neurocomputing
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201093553
Year: 1990
Cost: $59.25
Focus: Neural Networks.
Author: Horn, B. K.
Title: Robot Vision
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262081598
Year: 1986
Cost: $63.00
Focus: Mathematics for understanding vision AI problems.
Author: Howard I. and Rogers B
Title: Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Publisher: Oxford University Presst
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195084764
Year: 1996
Cost: 99.50 pds (aboaut $135)
Focus: Major compendium of binocular and 3D vision.
Level: Graduate.
Author: Hubel, D. H.
Title: Eye, Brain, and Vision
Publisher: W H Freeman & Co.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716760096
Year: 1995
Cost: $15.96
Focus: Physiology of vision.
Level: Undergraduate.
Author: Landy, M. S. & Movshon, J. A.
Title: Computational Models of Visual Processing
Publisher: MIT Press.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262121557
Year: 1992
Focus: Computational models of the visual system.
Author: Levine, M. D.
Title: Vision and Man in Machine
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070374465
Year: 1985
Focus: Computer vision, with coverage of biology.
Author: Levine, M. D.
Title: Fundamentals of Sensation and Perception
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198524676/qid=969101547/
Year: 2000
Ancillary Materials: CD ROM with animations and demonstrations.
Focus: Undergraduate textbook covering perception, sensory processes, and physiology.
Author: Marr, D.
Title: Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Publisher: W.H. Freeman
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716715678
Year: 1983
Cost: $30.36
Focus: Computational vision, psychophysics and some neurobiology. It explains how the the three approaches can be combined to study vision.
Level: Graduate.
Author: Sonka, M.
Title: Digital Image Processing
Publisher: Thomson Computer Press (Trd Disc)
Year: 1997
Cost: $27.27
Author: Sekuler, R., & Blake, R
Title: Perception
Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070560854
Year: 1994
Cost: $61.90
Focus:. Introduction to perception.
Level: Undergraduate.
Author: Schwartz, Steven H.
Title: Visual Perception: A Clinical Orientation (second edition)
Publisher: Appleton & Lange: Stamford, CT
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0838594662
Year: 1998
Cost: $59.95
Focus:. Perception and monocular perception courses
Level: Schools and colleges of optometry
Author: Tovee, M.
Title: An Introduction to the Visual System
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521483395
Author: Tyler, C. (ed.)
Title: Human Symmetry Perception and its Computational Analysis
Publisher: VSP, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Year: 1996
Cost: $46, via http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/symmbook/orderinfo.html
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/906764210X
Focus: Graduate. http://www.ski.org/CWTyler_lab/
Author: Uttal, W. R.
Title: A Taxonomy of Visual Processes
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898590752/
Year: 1981
Cost: $125
Author: Wandell. B. A.
Title: Foundations of Vision
Publisher: Sinauer Assoc
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0878938532
Year: 1995
Cost: $49.95
Focus: Psychophysics, neuroscience, and computational modeling.
Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate.
Author: Watt, R.
Title: Understanding Vision
Publisher: Academic Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0127385010
Year: 1991
Cost: $44.00
Focus: Computational aspects of vision.
Author: Wechsler, H.
Title: Computational Vision
Publisher: Academic Press
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/012741245X
Year: 1990
Cost: $83
Author: Zeki, S.
Title: A Vision of the Brain
Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0632030542
Year: 1993
Cost: $49.95
Focus: Discussion of biology of vision.
Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate
Computer Vision Online Publications, has links to online references, papers and proceedings, books and tutorials, and journals.
Online Bookstores has links to some online bookstores.
Psychophysics Tips, by Denis Pelli and David Brainard, http://www.ps ych.ucsb.edu/~brainard/psychophysics/bib.html, is a web site that has lots of practical advice about psychophysics, including a psychophysics bibliography by David Brainard, http://www.psy ch.ucsb.edu/~brainard/psychophysics/bib.html.
Recent Books on Biological Vision is a bibliography of books published after 1970 about biological vision.
Visual Textbook Suggestions: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~marshall/viscrs-bks-93.html is a list of recommendations for perception textbooks from practicing visual scientists. It includes useful and engaging comments. Some of the books, however, are out of print.
Some of the selected books were adapted from the listings on the Visual Textbook Suggestions page, http://www.cs.unc.edu/ ~marshall/viscrs-bks-93.html.
Thanks to the members of CVnet who helped with this page. Thanks also to Denis Pelli, for hosting this page on the Tips web server.