Unsupervised Learning of Combination Features for Hierarchical Recognition Models

  • Authors:
  • Heiko Wersing;Edgar Körner

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose a cortically inspired hierarchical feedforward model for recognition and investigate a new method for learning optimal combination-coding cells in intermediate stages of the hierarchical network. The model architecture is characterized by weight-sharing, pooling, and Winner-Take-All nonlinearities. We show that an unsupervised sparse coding learning rule can be used to obtain a recognition architecture that is competitive with other more formally abstracted recognition approaches based on supervised learning. We evaluate the performance on object and face databases.