Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media, and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, it accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies and digital image processing.

Anthony McCosker is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Deputy Director of the Social Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Rowan Wilken is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

1. Interrogating seeing machines
2. Camera consciousness
3. Face value
4. Automating and augmenting mobile vision
5. Drone vision
6. How does a car learn to see?
7. Training visual literacies