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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2012

Neural fields models of visual areas: principles, successes, and caveats

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I discuss how the notion of neural fields, a phenomenological averaged description of spatially distributed populations of neurons, can be used to build models of how visual information is represented and processed in the visual areas of primates. I describe in a pedestrian way one of the basic principles of operation of these neural fields equations which is closely connected to the idea of a bifurcation of their solutions. I then apply this concept to several visual features, edges, textures and motion and show that it can account very simply for a number of experimental facts as well as suggest new experiments. I outline several outstanding open problems and sketch out briefly interesting connections with computer vision and machine learning.
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hal-00845605 , version 1 (17-07-2013)

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Olivier Faugeras. Neural fields models of visual areas: principles, successes, and caveats. Workshop on Biological and Computer Vision Interfaces, 2012, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-00845605⟩
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