Multistability and Perceptual Inference
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Multistability and Perceptual Inference
Ambiguous images present a challenge to the visual system: How can uncertainty about the causes of visual inputs be represented when there are multiple equally plausible causes? A Bayesian ideal observer should represent uncertainty in the form of a posterior probability distribution over causes. However, in many real-world situations, computing this distribution is intractable and requires som...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neural Computation
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0899-7667,1530-888X
DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_00226