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Here, the standard V1 cortex model optimized to reproduce image distortion psychophysics is shown to have nice statistical properties, e.g. approximate factorization of the PDF of natural images. These results confirm the efficient encoding hypothesis that aims to explain the organization of biological sensors by information theory arguments.
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Malo, J., Laparra, V. (2010). Visual Cortex Performs a Sort of Non-linear ICA. In: Solé-Casals, J., Zaiats, V. (eds) Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. NOLISP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5933. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11509-7_3
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