By Mathilde FichenIn the early days of computer vision, when memory was scarce and every byte counted, innovation thrived under constraint. “An Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm,” developed at Inria in the late 1980s, is a brilliant example of this spirit. Down in sunny Sophia Antipolis, a tech park 20 minutes inland from Antibes, the team tackled computer vision with a distinctly local flavor. Computer vision in the 80sThe mid-1980s aspiration of seeing robots hit a speed bump: computer vision algorithms weren’t fast enough. Solving key memory issuesThe algorithm was first developed on a PerkinElmer Model 3250 computer, seen above in a brochure via 1000bit.