A Vision Architecture

Christoph von der Malsburg

2014

Abstract

We are offering a particular interpretation (well within the range of experimentally and theoretically accepted notions) of neural connectivity and dynamics and discuss it as the data-and-process architecture of the visual system. In this interpretation the permanent connectivity of cortex is an overlay of well-structured networks, “nets”, which are formed on the slow time-scale of learning by self-interaction of the network under the influence of sensory input, and which are selectively activated on the fast perceptual time-scale. Nets serve as an explicit, hierarchical representation of visual structure in the various sub-modalities, as constraint networks favouring mutually consistent sets of latent variables and as projection mappings to deal with invariance.

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von der Malsburg C. (2014). A Vision Architecture . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-054-3, pages 345-350. DOI: 10.5220/0005158103450350


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@conference{ncta14,
author={Christoph von der Malsburg},
title={A Vision Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={345-350},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005158103450350},
isbn={978-989-758-054-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: NCTA, (IJCCI 2014)
TI - A Vision Architecture
SN - 978-989-758-054-3
AU - von der Malsburg C.
PY - 2014
SP - 345
EP - 350
DO - 10.5220/0005158103450350