Depth Perception in Stereo Computer Vision
This is a 1975 technical report from the Stanford University computer science department, written by Clark Thompson and distributed through the Defense Technical Information Center, on how stereo cameras and computer vision recover depth. The pictures are grainy, low-contrast black-and-white camera frames of a barn, a stuff pile and a field, each captioned left or right to show the two stereo views, with timestamps and frame labels at the edges. A designer might take from them the flat, documentary look of early machine-vision imagery and the paired-viewpoint idea behind stereo depth.
