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Ganglion-Based Balance Design of Multi-Layer Model and Its Watchfulness-Keeping

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An important problem of machine vision is the balance among the efficiency, accuracy and computation cost. The visual system of man can keep watchfulness to the perimeter of a visual field and subtly process information emerging in the center of the visual field at the same time. This kind of requirement assignment of computation can virtually ease the demand of hardware both in quantity and complexity. Therefore designing an artificial model based on biological mechanism is an effective approach. In this paper a multi-layer neural model is designed based on the multi-scale receptive fields of ganglions in retina. The model can keep watch on the periphery part of a scene while processing the center information of the scene. And why it can balance the hardware complexity, processing precision and computational intensity is analyzed. An experiment is done to test the model's sensitivity in watchfulness keeping and its efficiency and veracity in environment sampling. This model may provide valuable inspiration in the implementation of real-time processing and the avoidance of expensive computation cost in machine vision.

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  1. Lab of Algorithm for Cognitive Model of Department of Computer Science, Brain Science Research Center Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China

    Hui Wei

  2. Intelligence Engineering Lab, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, P.R. China

    Shang-Min Luan

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This research is supported by the NSFC under Grant No.60303007, the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No.2001CB309401, and the open project of Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, ICT of CAS under Grant No.IIP2002-3.

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Wei, H., Luan, SM. Ganglion-Based Balance Design of Multi-Layer Model and Its Watchfulness-Keeping. J Comput Sci Technol 20, 567–573 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-005-0567-2

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