Extraction of salient contours in primary visual cortex: A neural network model based on physiological knowledge

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2242-2245

  La Cara, G E ^a   Bettini, M ^a   Ursino, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Contour extraction; Gestalt criteria; Hypercolumn; Orientation column; Receptive field; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FEEDBACK; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONTOUR EXTRACTION; GESTALT CRITERIA; HYPERCOLUMN; ORIENTATION COLUMN; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 1542360846     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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