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Current models of object recognition generally assume a bottom-up process within a hierarchy of stages. As an alternative, we present a top-down modulation of the processed stimulus information to allow a goal-directed detection of objects within natural scenes. Our procedure has its origin in current findings of research in attention which suggest that feedback enhances cells in a feature-specific manner. We show that feedback allows discrimination of a target object by allocation of attentional resources.
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Hamker, F.H., Worcester, J. (2002). Object Detection in Natural Scenes by Feedback. 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_40
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