Statistical models of linear and non-linear contextual interactions in early visual processing

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 369-377

  Coen Cagli, Ruben ^a   Dayan, Peter ^b   Schwartz, Odelia ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DIVISIVE GAINS; GAIN MODULATION; NATURAL SCENES; NEURAL MODELLING; NON LINEAR; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; SIMPLE++; STATISTIC MODELING; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

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