Who is the author ?
Have they published anything else highly rated ?
Are there good reviews from people that know what they're talking about?
Are there good reviews from students that don't know anything ?
based on a table of contents? You can download the draft of Chapters 1-21 (500+ pages) from the linked site.
Who is the author ? Simon J. D. Prince is Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bath and author of Computer Vision: Models, Learning and Inference. A research scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and deep learning, he has led teams of research scientists in academia and industry at Anthropics Technologies Ltd, Borealis AI, and elsewhere.
Have they published anything else highly rated ? Author of >50 peer reviewed publications in top tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, SIGGRAPH etc.) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fjm67xYAAAAJ&hl=en
Are there good reviews [...] The book has not been published, this is literally a free draft that you are looking at. The book is listed on Amazon as a pre-order for 85USD.
The entire pdf is available as a free download on that page. First link at the top.
https://github.com/udlbook/udlbook/releases/download/v1.16/U...