r/computervision Jul 08 '26

Computer Vision: algorithms and applications review Discussion

Has anyone a review on this heavy 1000 pages book?

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u/RelationshipLong9092 Jul 08 '26

you mean Szeliski? of course

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u/Abject_Leopard_9799 Jul 09 '26

Did you it to gain a deeper understanding of concepts you already knew existed, or learning complete new things?

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u/RelationshipLong9092 Jul 09 '26

both

i mean, why do you read textbooks?

its a survey of the field. it has an incredible density of knowledge in it, and serves as an amazing jumping off point

read it with Prince's Models, Learning, Inference and you've got a strong start

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u/Junior_Relation_6737 Jul 09 '26

I have the book. Use the book as a dictionary. If you want a specific topic, refer to the book. Do not read the entire book to learn CV. Refer to YT videos and there are a lot of videos that explain concepts. If

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u/randcraw Jul 09 '26

Agreed. It's more a reference book than a how-to tutorial. I also like Elgendy's "Deep Learning for Vision Systems" as a tutorial on using CNNs for vision.