Neural Scene Segmentation by Oscillatory Correlation

Abstract

The segmentation of a visual scene into a set of coherent patterns (objects) is a fundamental aspect of perception, which underlies a variety of important tasks such as figure/ground segregation, and scene analysis. An innovative approach has been developed that uses neural oscillator networks to segment images. The framework, called oscillatory correlation, encodes the binding of pixels by phases of neural oscillators, resulting in a dynamical systems approach. The approach has been evaluated by computer simulations using both synthetic and real imagery, including intensity, range, motion, texture images. The results have been very competitive.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA374715

Entities

People

  • DeLiang Wang

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Neural Networks
  • Oscillators
  • Relaxation Oscillators
  • Remote Sensing
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design