Visual grouping by neural oscillator networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1871-1884

  Yu, Guoshen ^a,b   Slotine, Jean Jacques ^c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grouping; Image segmentation; Neural oscillator; Synchronization; Vision

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR INTEGRATION; DESYNCHRONIZATION; DIFFUSIVE COUPLING; DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONIZATION; NEURAL OSCILLATOR; NEURAL OSCILLATOR NETWORK; NEURAL SYNCHRONIZATION; PERCEPTUAL GROUPING; SIMPLE NETWORKS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; VISUAL GROUPING;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SYNCHRONIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72149116417     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2009.2031678     Document Type: Article

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