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In the real world, the biological visual system is more efficient than the machine visual system in analyzing visual information. Physiology theories show that this efficiency owes to the multi-layer neural network in human visual system, in which every layer accomplishes different tasks and is related with other layers. The low-level stages of the human visual system, especially the retina, can provide certain scale information for the high-level stages of visual system through using the non-classical receptive field (nCRF) mechanism. This mechanism that the nCRF size can be adjusted automatically by ganglion cell (GC) can achieve a multi-scale image analysis. The results, reflecting the distribution of the image information, can be shared by several algorithms or processes solving different visual tasks, such as contour detection and image segmentation. A model of multi-scale image analysis based on GC has been proposed in this paper, which retains the key information and reduces the redundancy information for the further stages of the visual system. Experimental results on N-cut and contour detection show that this multi-scale image analysis model provides distinctive improvement for these image processing tasks.
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Wei, H., Zuo, Q., Lang, B. (2011). Multi-scale Image Analysis Based on Non-Classical Receptive Field Mechanism. In: Lu, BL., Zhang, L., Kwok, J. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7064. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24965-5_68
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