Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship

Cinema 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 o...