A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization
@article{Serre2007AFA, title={A feedforward architecture accounts for rapid categorization}, author={Thomas Serre and Aude Oliva and Tomaso A. Poggio}, journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, year={2007}, volume={104}, pages={6424 - 6429} }
Primates are remarkably good at recognizing objects. The level of performance of their visual system and its robustness to image degradations still surpasses the best computer vision systems despite decades of engineering effort. In particular, the high accuracy of primates in ultra rapid object categorization and rapid serial visual presentation tasks is remarkable. Given the number of processing stages involved and typical neural latencies, such rapid visual processing is likely to be mostly…
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