Visual Segmentation without Classification in a Model of the Primary Visual Cortex

Stimuli outside classical receptive fields significantly influence the neurons' activities in primary visual cortex. We propose that such contextual influences are used to segment regions by detecting the breakdown of homogeneity or translation invariance in the input, thus computing glob...

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Main Author: Li, Zhaoping
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7247