Learning Complex Cell Invariance from Natural Videos: A Plausibility Proof

Abstract

One of the most striking features of the cortex is its ability to wire itself. Understanding how the visual cortex wires up through development and how visual experience refines connections into adulthood is a key question for Neuroscience. While computational models of the visual cortex are becoming increasingly detailed, the question of how such architecture could self-organize through visual experience is often overlooked. Here we focus on the class of hierarchical feed-forward models of the ventral stream of the visual cortex, which extend the classical simple-to-complex cells model by Hubel and Wiesel to extra-striate areas, and have been shown to account for a host of experimental data. Such models assume two functional classes of simple and complex cells with specific predictions about their respective wiring and resulting functionalities. In these networks, the issue of learning, especially for complex cells, is perhaps the least well understood. In fact, in most of these models, the connectivity between simple and complex cells is not learned but rather hard-wired. Several algorithms have been proposed for learning invariances at the complex cell level based on a trace rule to exploit the temporal continuity of sequences of natural images.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 26, 2007
Accession Number
ADA477351

Entities

People

  • Simon Thorpe
  • Thomas Serre
  • Timothee Masquelier
  • Tomaso Poggio

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Brain
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Vision
  • Experimental Data
  • Invariance
  • Neural Networks
  • Neurons
  • Neurosciences
  • Object Recognition
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Visual Cortex

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.