Efficient coding in the whisker system: Biomimetic pre-processing for robots?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8064 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 364-367

  Evans, Mathew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS;

AUDITORY NERVES; PRE-PROCESSING; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; SENSORY PROCESSING; SIMPLE AND COMPLEX CELLS; TUNING PROPERTIES;

BIOMIMETICS;

EID: 84880710444     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39802-5_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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