View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The primate brain contains a hierarchy of visual areas, dubbed the ventral stream, which rapidly computes object representations that are both specific for object identity and robust against identity-preserving transformations, like depth rotations [1, 2]. Current computational m...

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Main Authors: Leibo, Joel Z, Liao, Qianli, Anselmi, Fabio, Freiwald, Winrich A, Poggio, Tomaso
Other Authors: Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
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Published: Elsevier BV 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135732
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author Leibo, Joel Z
Liao, Qianli
Anselmi, Fabio
Freiwald, Winrich A
Poggio, Tomaso
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Leibo, Joel Z
Liao, Qianli
Anselmi, Fabio
Freiwald, Winrich A
Poggio, Tomaso
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description © 2017 Elsevier Ltd The primate brain contains a hierarchy of visual areas, dubbed the ventral stream, which rapidly computes object representations that are both specific for object identity and robust against identity-preserving transformations, like depth rotations [1, 2]. Current computational models of object recognition, including recent deep-learning networks, generate these properties through a hierarchy of alternating selectivity-increasing filtering and tolerance-increasing pooling operations, similar to simple-complex cells operations [3–6]. Here, we prove that a class of hierarchical architectures and a broad set of biologically plausible learning rules generate approximate invariance to identity-preserving transformations at the top level of the processing hierarchy. However, all past models tested failed to reproduce the most salient property of an intermediate representation of a three-level face-processing hierarchy in the brain: mirror-symmetric tuning to head orientation [7]. Here, we demonstrate that one specific biologically plausible Hebb-type learning rule generates mirror-symmetric tuning to bilaterally symmetric stimuli, like faces, at intermediate levels of the architecture and show why it does so. Thus, the tuning properties of individual cells inside the visual stream appear to result from group properties of the stimuli they encode and to reflect the learning rules that sculpted the information-processing system within which they reside.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1357322023-02-16T19:35:09Z View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation Leibo, Joel Z Liao, Qianli Anselmi, Fabio Freiwald, Winrich A Poggio, Tomaso Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT © 2017 Elsevier Ltd The primate brain contains a hierarchy of visual areas, dubbed the ventral stream, which rapidly computes object representations that are both specific for object identity and robust against identity-preserving transformations, like depth rotations [1, 2]. Current computational models of object recognition, including recent deep-learning networks, generate these properties through a hierarchy of alternating selectivity-increasing filtering and tolerance-increasing pooling operations, similar to simple-complex cells operations [3–6]. Here, we prove that a class of hierarchical architectures and a broad set of biologically plausible learning rules generate approximate invariance to identity-preserving transformations at the top level of the processing hierarchy. However, all past models tested failed to reproduce the most salient property of an intermediate representation of a three-level face-processing hierarchy in the brain: mirror-symmetric tuning to head orientation [7]. Here, we demonstrate that one specific biologically plausible Hebb-type learning rule generates mirror-symmetric tuning to bilaterally symmetric stimuli, like faces, at intermediate levels of the architecture and show why it does so. Thus, the tuning properties of individual cells inside the visual stream appear to result from group properties of the stimuli they encode and to reflect the learning rules that sculpted the information-processing system within which they reside. 2021-10-27T20:29:01Z 2021-10-27T20:29:01Z 2017 2019-10-03T16:42:17Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135732 Leibo, J. Z., et al. "View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation." Curr Biol (2016). en 10.1016/J.CUB.2016.10.015 Current Biology Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV PMC
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Liao, Qianli
Anselmi, Fabio
Freiwald, Winrich A
Poggio, Tomaso
View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title_full View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title_fullStr View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title_full_unstemmed View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title_short View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation
title_sort view tolerant face recognition and hebbian learning imply mirror symmetric neural tuning to head orientation
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135732
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