Formal Analysis of Models for the Mammalian Vision System

  • Authors:
  • Bedeho Mender

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oslo, Norway, email: bmmender@ifi.uio.no

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present a rigorous definition of classification in a common family of models for the mammalian vision system, and provide a formal analysis of classification power in this family. We characterize the power of a single unit, and subsequently demonstrate how to reduce a network of arbitrary topology and size to such a single unit. We finally show how such a network, via a reduction to a single unit, is equivalent to a simple 3 layer feed forward network of threshold units Numenta Inc.(http://www.numenta.com) is a private company, founded by D. Dubinsky, D. George and J. Hawkins, developing a general purpose computing platform, called NuPiC, based on the HTM model.