Graphics processing unit-accelerated techniques for bio-inspired computation in the primary visual cortex

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1799-1818

  Chessa, Manuela ^a   Pasquale, Giulia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

binocular energy model; data representation; disparity estimation; distributed population coding; neural architecture; parallel computational schemes

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; DISPARITY ESTIMATIONS; ENERGY MODEL; NEURAL ARCHITECTURES; POPULATION CODING;

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

EID: 84902547665     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.3118     Document Type: Article

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