A competitive-layer model for feature binding and sensory segmentation

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 357-387

  Wersing, Heiko ^a   Steil, Jochen J ^b   Ritter, Helge ^b  

^a Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SENSATION; VISION;

EID: 0035258563     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976601300014574     Document Type: Article

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