Efficiency, redundancy and sparse coding: Just a portion of Barlow's legacy
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Cornell University, United States
The last 50 years has seen a variety of theories proposed to account for the behavior of neurons in the visual pathway. Many of these theories have focused on techniques found to be mathematically elegant (Fourier analysis, textons, wavelet coding, etc) but not on the nature of the signal to be coded. Although Horace Barlow has authored a wide number of major papers, his focus on efficiency and the redundancy of the natural signal is possibly the most influential. In this talk, I will look back at some of the proposals that Horace Barlow has made and look at where we are today. In particular, I will describe the influence of his work on my own research related to sparse coding and the statistics of natural scenes.
Conference:
Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 25 Feb - 2 Mar, 2010.
Presentation Type:
Oral Presentation
Topic:
Oral presentations
Citation:
Field
D
(2010). Efficiency, redundancy and sparse coding: Just a portion of Barlow's legacy.
Front. Neurosci.
Conference Abstract:
Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2010.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.03.00024
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Received:
17 Feb 2010;
Published Online:
17 Feb 2010.
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Correspondence:
David Field, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, djf3@cornell.edu