Abstract
A mathematical model of the primary visual cortex is presented. Basically, the model comprises two features. Firstly, in analogy with the principle of the computerized tomography (CT), it assumes that simple cells in each hypercolumn are not merely detecting line segments in images as features, but rather that they are as a whole representing the local image with a certain representation. Secondly, it assumes that each hypercolumn is performing spatial frequency analyses of local images using that representation, and that the resultant spectra are represented by complex cells. The model is analyzed using numerical simulations and its advantages are discussed from the viewpoint of visual information processing. It is shown that 1) the proposed processing is tolerant to shifts in position of input images, and that 2) spatial frequency filtering operations can be easily performed in the model.
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Okajima, K. A mathematical model of the primary visual cortex and hypercolumn. Biol. Cybern. 54, 107–114 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00320481
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00320481