Abstract
We propose an alternative paradigm for processing time-varying visual inputs, in particular for tasks involving temporal and spatial integration, which is inspired by hypotheses about the computational role of cortical microcircuits. Since detailed knowledge about the precise structure of the microcircuit is not needed for that, it can in principle also be implemented with partially unknown or faulty analog hardware. In addition, this approach supports parallel real-time processing of time-varying visual inputs for diverse tasks, since different readouts can be trained to extract concurrently from the same microcircuit completely different information components.
The work was partially supported by the Austrian Science Fond FWF, project # P15386.
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Maass, W., Legenstein, R., Markram, H. (2002). A New Approach towards Vision Suggested by Biologically Realistic Neural Microcircuit Models. In: Bülthoff, H.H., Wallraven, C., Lee, SW., Poggio, T.A. (eds) Biologically Motivated Computer Vision. BMCV 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36181-2_28
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