Image Analysis Quotes

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye.

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

We conduct a safety review of all images, audio, and video files through a combination of human review and machine detection prior to them becoming available on our platform.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, not only seeing this thing, whether it's the horse or the sky, but you are seeing somebody point at it and say, Look!

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

You can't be a passive recipient of images, you have to engage with images and read their subtexts. These are critical things that will be taught to the students by a film club.

The thing itself is one; the images are many. What leads to a perceptive understanding of the thing is not the focus on one image, but the viewing of many images together.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

I don't really like reading: I like seeing and touching images.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.