Investigating Border Ownership and Figure-Ground Com- putation in HMAX
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Motivation: Understanding which parts of an image belong to a “foreground” object and which belong to the “background” can provide information potentially useful for object recognition. A recent physiology experiment [5] has shown that neurons along the visual stream (areas V2 and V4) carry information about how local features belong to objects. Very interestingly, this modulation of neuronal firing can be caused by visual stimulation far from the “classical” receptive field.
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