Receptive Field Structures for Recognition
Abstract
Localized operators, like Gabor wavelets and difference-of-Gaussian filters, are considered to be useful tools for image representation. This is due to their ability to form a sparse code that can serve as a basis set for high-fidelity reconstruction of natural images. However, for many visual tasks, the more appropriate criterion of representational efficacy is recognition , rather than reconstruction . It is unclear whether simple local features provide the stability necessary to subserve robust recognition of complex objects. In this paper, we search the space of two-lobed differential operators for those that constitute a good representational code under recognition/discrimination criteria. We find that a novel operator, which we call the dissociated dipole displays useful properties in this regard. We describe simple computational experiments to assess the merits of such dipoles relative to the more traditional local operators. The results suggest that non-local operators constitute a vocabulary that is stable across a range of image transformations. Acknowledgements: BJB is a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. This research was funded in part by the DARPA HumanID Program and the National Science Foundation ITR Program. PS is supported by an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in neuroscience and a Merck Foundation Fellowship.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA467499
Entities
People
- Benjamin Balas
- Pawan Sinha
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology