Modeling the lateral cortical connections and Area V1 to LGN feedback for producing segment completion, noise reduction, and attentional effects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3016, Issue , 1997, Pages 203-214

  Enke, David L ^a   Dagli, Cihan H ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area V1; Attention; Cortical feedback; Inhibition; Lateral connections; LGN; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AREA V1; ATTENTION; CORTICAL FEEDBACK; INHIBITION; LATERAL CONNECTIONS; LGN; VISUAL CORTEX;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 58749088956     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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