Invariant and selective image representations with application to a model of object recognition in visual cortex and deep learning

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titleInvariant and selective image representations with application to a model of object recognition in visual cortex and deep learning
start_date2018/05/09
schedule14h30-16h30
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summaryThe primate brain contains a hierarchy of visual areas, dubbed the ventral stream, which rapidly computes object representations that are both specific for object identity and robust against identity-preserving transformations. In the first part of the talk I conjecture that one of the main computational goals of the ventral stream is to provide a hierarchical representation of new objects/images which is invariant to transformations and selective for recognition and show how such a representation is characterized by small sample complexity and can be learned during development and visual experience. Further, from a machine learning point of view, I also show how a class of regularized deep convolutional neural networks that mimic the ventral stream architecture can learn such representations.
responsiblesSarti, Petitot, Nadal