The Making of a Neuromorphic Visual System [Paperback]

1: Seeing: Blazing Processing Characteristics1.1 An Infinite Reservoir of Information1.2 Speed1.3 Illusions1.4 Recognition Evolvement1.5 Basic-Level Categorization1.6 Memory Capacity and Access1.7 Summary2: Category Representation and Recognition Evolvement2.1 Structural Variability Independence2.2 Viewpoint Independence2.3 Representation and Evolvement2.4 Recapitulation2.5 Refining the Primary Engineering Goal3: Neuroscientific Inspiration3.1 Hierarchy and Models3.2 Criticism and Variants3.3 Speed3.4 Alternative Codes3.5 Alternative Shape Recognition3.6 Insight from Cases of Visual Agnosia3 7 Neuronal Level3.8 Recapitulation and Conclusion4: Neuromorphic Tools4.1 The Transistor4.2 A Synaptic Circuit4.3 Dendritic Compartments4.4 An Integrate-and-Fire Neuron4.5 A Silicon Cortex4.6 Fabrication Vagrancies require Simplest Models4.7 Recapitulation5: Insight From Line Drawings Studies5.1 A Representation with Polygons5.2 A Representation with Polygons and their Context5.3 Recapitulation6: Retina Circuits Signaling and Propagating Contours6.1 The Input: a Luminance Landscape6.2 Spatial Analysis in the Real Retina6.3 The Propagation Map6.4 Signaling Contours in Gray-Scale Images6.5 Recapitulation7: The Symmetric-Axis Transform7.1 The Transform7.2 Architecture7.3 Performance7.4 SAT Variants7.5 Fast Waves7.6 Recapitulation8: Motion Detection8.1 Models8.2 Speed Detecting Architectures8.3 Simulation8.4 Biophysical Plausibility8.5 Recapitulation9: Neuromorphic Architectures: Pieces and Proposals9.1 Integration Perspectives9.2 Position and Size Invariance9.3 Architecture for a Template Approach9.4 Basic-Level Representations9.5 Recapitulation10: Shape Recognition with ContourPropagation Fields10.1 The Idea of the Contour Propagation Field10.2 Architecture10.3 Testing10.4 Discussion10.5 Learning10.6 Recapitulation11: Scene Recognition11.1 Objects in Scenes, Scene Regularity11.2 Representation, Evolvement, Gist11.3 Scene Exploration11.4 Engineering11.5 Recapitulation12: Summary1lÃ