Inferring figure-ground using a recurrent integrate-and-fire neural circuit

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-130

  Baek, Kyungim ^a   Sajda, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing (LIINC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical hypercolumn; Figure ground; Integrate and fire; Probabilistic inference; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CONTOUR; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISUALIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BAYES THEOREM; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 22544437329     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2005.847388     Document Type: Article

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