Real-time simulation of large-scale neural architectures for visual features computation based on GPU

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 272-291

  Chessa, Manuela ^a   Bianchi, Valentina ^a   Zampetti, Massimo ^a   Sabatini, Silvio P ^a   Solari, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binocular energy model; Disparity computation; GPGPU; Population coding; Visual neural model

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84870745132     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: 13616536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0954898X.2012.737500     Document Type: Article

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