Speed estimation with propagation maps

  • Authors:
  • C. Rasche

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a neural architecture that estimates the speed of motion. The basis is a two-dimensional map made of locally connected integrate-and-fire neurons, that propagates and integrates synaptic input in a dendritic-cable-like manner, but irrespective of any direction. The propagation dynamics of such a map are tuned to filter preferred speeds: slow map dynamics filter slow speeds, fast map dynamics filter fast speeds. The propagation map is potentially simple enough for an analog hardware approach.