Numerical analysis: 4th ed
What does the retina know about natural scenes?
Neural Computation
What is the goal of sensory coding?
Neural Computation
Prior Learning and Gibbs Reaction-Diffusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Expert systems and decision systems using neural networks
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GIFs, JPEGs and BMPs: Handling Internet Graphics
GIFs, JPEGs and BMPs: Handling Internet Graphics
GRADE: Gibbs Reaction and Diffusion Equitions
ICCV '98 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Vision
Statistical Edge Detection: Learning and Evaluating Edge Cues
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Bayesian framework for sensory adaptation
Neural Computation
Manhattan world: orientation and outlier detection by Bayesian inference
Neural Computation
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Recently we found that the theories related to information theory existent in the literature cannot explain the behavior of the extent of the lateral inhibition mediated by retinal horizontal cells as a function of background light intensity. These theories can explain the fall of the extent from intermediate to high intensities, but not its rise from dim to intermediate intensities. We propose an alternate hypothesis that accounts for the extent’s bell-shape behavior. This hypothesis proposes that the lateral-inhibition adaptation in the early retina is part of a system to extract several image attributes, such as occlusion borders and contrast. To do so, this system would use prior probabilistic knowledge about the biological processing and relevant statistics in natural images. A key novel statistic used here is the probability of the presence of an occlusion border as a function of local contrast. Using this probabilistic knowledge, the retina would optimize the spatial profile of lateral inhibition to minimize attribute-extraction error. The two significant errors that this minimization process must reduce are due to the quantal noise in photoreceptors and the straddling of occlusion borders by lateral inhibition.