TY - GEN
T1 - Statistical models of linear and non-linear contextual interactions in early visual processing
AU - Coen-Cagli, Ruben
AU - Dayan, Peter
AU - Schwartz, Odelia
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A central hypothesis about early visual processing is that it represents inputs in a coordinate system matched to the statistics of natural scenes. Simple versions of this lead to Gabor-like receptive fields and divisive gain modulation from local surrounds; these have led to influential neural and psychological models of visual processing. However, these accounts are based on an incomplete view of the visual context surrounding each point. Here, we consider an approximate model of linear and non-linear correlations between the responses of spatially distributed Gabor-like receptive fields, which, when trained on an ensemble of natural scenes, unifies a range of spatial context effects. The full model accounts for neural surround data in primary visual cortex (V1), provides a statistical foundation for perceptual phenomena associated with Li's (2002) hypothesis that V1 builds a saliency map, and fits data on the tilt illusion.
AB - A central hypothesis about early visual processing is that it represents inputs in a coordinate system matched to the statistics of natural scenes. Simple versions of this lead to Gabor-like receptive fields and divisive gain modulation from local surrounds; these have led to influential neural and psychological models of visual processing. However, these accounts are based on an incomplete view of the visual context surrounding each point. Here, we consider an approximate model of linear and non-linear correlations between the responses of spatially distributed Gabor-like receptive fields, which, when trained on an ensemble of natural scenes, unifies a range of spatial context effects. The full model accounts for neural surround data in primary visual cortex (V1), provides a statistical foundation for perceptual phenomena associated with Li's (2002) hypothesis that V1 builds a saliency map, and fits data on the tilt illusion.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84858711457
SN - 9781615679119
T3 - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference
SP - 369
EP - 377
BT - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference
PB - Neural Information Processing Systems
T2 - 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2009
Y2 - 7 December 2009 through 10 December 2009
ER -