Juyang Weng

This popular science compendium provides an approximate, holistic but first ever solution to the four Holy Grail questions: How does a brain work? How does the brain learn? How does its consciousness arise? How does learning require consciousness?The volume explains how human brains require and learn consciousness and why the new AI will overcome the current lack of conscious learning algorithms in AI. For human societies, it suggests how governments can make their taxpayers safer, more prosper and happier. For future AI, it calls for a thorough investigation in scientific infrastructures like government and private funding agencies, publication venues, professional societies and administrators that evaluate research. Why did a conscious learning algorithm not have a healthy environment to study? Why could rampant misconducts of data deletion in deep learning be allowed to grossly exaggerate AI performances for so long? The author's real-life accounts reveal deep reasons.The useful reference text benefits laymen in all walks of life, as well as professionals, researchers, academics and students in any areas.

Motion and Structure from Image Sequences is invaluable reading for researchers, graduate students, and practicing engineers dealing with computer vision. It presents a balanced treatment of the theoretical and practical issues, including very recent results - some of which are published here for the first time. The topics covered in detail are: - image matching and optical flow computation - structure from stereo - structure from motion - motion estimation - integration of multiple views - motion modeling and prediction Aspects such as uniqueness of the solution, degeneracy conditions, error analysis, stability, optimality, and robustness are also investigated. These details together with the fact that the algorithms are accessible without necessarily studying the rest of the material, make this book particularly attractive to practitioners.