A simple cell model with dominating opponent inhibition for robust image processing

Neural Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 647-662

  Hansen, Thorsten ^a   Neumann, Heiko ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dominating opponent inhibition; Receptive fields; Simple cell

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CORTICAL SIMPLE CELLS; REAL WORLD IMAGES;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; EMPIRICISM; IMAGE PROCESSING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ON OFF PHENOMENON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4344591509     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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