Unsupervised learning of contextual constraints in neural networks for simultaneous visual processing of multiple objects

Jonathan A. Marshall

doi:10.1117/12.130820

16 December 1992 Unsupervised learning of contextual constraints in neural networks for simultaneous visual processing of multiple objects

Jonathan A. Marshall

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Proceedings Volume 1766, Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130820
Event: San Diego '92, 1992, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A simple self-organizing neural network model, called an EXIN network, that learns to process sensory information in a context-sensitive manner, is described. EXIN networks develop efficient representation structures for higher-level visual tasks such as segmentation, grouping, transparency, depth perception, and size perception. Exposure to a perceptual environment during a developmental period serves to configure the network to perform appropriate organization of sensory data. A new anti-Hebbian inhibitory learning rule permits superposition of multiple simultaneous neural activations (multiple winners), while maintaining contextual consistency constraints, instead of forcing winner-take-all pattern classifications. The activations can represent multiple patterns simultaneously and can represent uncertainty. The network performs parallel parsing, credit attribution, and simultaneous constraint satisfaction. EXIN networks can learn to represent multiple oriented edges even where they intersect and can learn to represent multiple transparently overlaid surfaces defined by stereo or motion cues. In the case of stereo transparency, the inhibitory learning implements both a uniqueness constraint and permits coactivation of cells representing multiple disparities at the same image location. Thus two or more disparities can be active simultaneously without interference. This behavior is analogous to that of Prazdny's stereo vision algorithm, with the bonus that each binocular point is assigned a unique disparity. In a large implementation, such a NN would also be able to represent effectively the disparities of a cloud of points at random depths, like human observers, and unlike Prazdny's method

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Jonathan A. Marshall "Unsupervised learning of contextual constraints in neural networks for simultaneous visual processing of multiple objects", Proc. SPIE 1766, Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing, (16 December 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130820

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