Cortical spatiotemporal dimensionality reduction for visual grouping

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_00738MaRDI QIDQ5380249zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Giacomo Cocci, Davide Barbieri, A. Sarti, Giovanna Citti

Publication date 4 June 2019

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0733

zbMATH Keywords

spectral clusteringcortical spatiotemporal dimensionality reductionvisual grouping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Neural biology (92C20)

Abstract: The visual systems of many mammals, including humans, is able to integrate the geometric information of visual stimuli and to perform cognitive tasks already at the first stages of the cortical processing. This is thought to be the result of a combination of mechanisms, which include feature extraction at single cell level and geometric processing by means of cells connectivity. We present a geometric model of such connectivities in the space of detected features associated to spatio-temporal visual stimuli, and show how they can be used to obtain low-level object segmentation. The main idea is that of defining a spectral clustering procedure with anisotropic affinities over datasets consisting of embeddings of the visual stimuli into higher dimensional spaces. Neural plausibility of the proposed arguments will be discussed.

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