Revisiting Algorithmic Lateral Inhibition and Accumulative Computation

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Fernández-Caballero;María T. López;Miguel A. Fernández;José M. López-Valles

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Albacete, Albacete, Spain 02071 and Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Albacete, Spain 02071;Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Albacete, Spain 02071 and Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Albacete, Spain 0 ...;Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática, Albacete, Spain 02071 and Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Albacete, Spain 0 ...;Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Albacete, Albacete, Spain 02071

  • Venue:
  • IWINAC '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Work-Conference on The Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation: Part I: Methods and Models in Artificial and Natural Computation. A Homage to Professor Mira's Scientific Legacy
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Certainly, one of the prominent ideas of Professor Mira was that it is absolutely mandatory to specify the mechanisms and/or processes underlying each task and inference mentioned in an architecture in order to make operational that architecture. The conjecture of the last fifteen years of joint research of Professor Mira and our team at University of Castilla-La Mancha has been that any bottom-up organization may be made operational using two biologically inspired methods called "algorithmic lateral inhibition", a generalization of lateral inhibition anatomical circuits, and "accumulative computation", a working memory related to the temporal evolution of the membrane potential. This paper is dedicated to the computational formulations of both methods, which have led to quite efficient solutions of problems related to motion-based computer vision.