Object recognition by artificial cortical maps

Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 763-780

  Plebe, Alessio ^a   Domenella, Rosaria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Object recognition; Self organizing maps; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL CORTEX;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; EPIGENETICS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RETINA; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34548421414     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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