Cinema and Machine Vision by Daniel Chvez Heras PAPERBACK 9781399514729

Edinburgh University Press

Cinema and Machine VisionArtificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship\nAuthor(s): Daniel Chvez Heras\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399514729, 978-1399514729\nSynopsis\nCinema and Machine Vision unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic, and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader key new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture. It theorises machine vision through a selection of aesthetics, film theory, and applied machine learning research, dispelling widely held assumptions about computer systems designed to watch and make images on our behalf.\n\nAt its heart, Cinema and Machine Vision is an invitation for film and media scholars to critically engage with AI at a technical level, a prompt for scientists and engineers working with images and cultural data to cr.