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Simple Cell
A simple cell in the visual cortex, primary visual cortex is a cell that responds primarily to oriented edges and gratings (bars of particular orientations). Torsten Wiesel and David Hubel discovered these cells in the late 1950s. Such cells are tuned to different frequencies and orientations, even with different phase relationships, possibly to extract disparity (depth) information and to attribute depth to detected lines and edges. This may result in a 3D 'wire-frame' representation as used in computer graphics. The fact that input from the left and right eyes is very close in the so-called cortical hypercolumns indicates that depth processing occurs very early, aiding the recognition of 3D objects. Later, many other cells with specific functions have been discovered: (a) end-stopped cells, which are thought to detect singularities like line and edge crossings, vertices, and line endings; (b) bar and grating cells. The latter are not linear operators because a bar cell does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabor Filter
In image processing, a Gabor filter, named after Dennis Gabor, who first proposed it as a 1D filter. The Gabor filter was first generalized to 2D by Gösta Granlund, by adding a reference direction. The Gabor filter is a linear filter used for texture analysis, which essentially means that it analyzes whether there is any specific frequency content in the image in specific directions in a localized region around the point or region of analysis. Frequency and orientation representations of Gabor filters are claimed by many contemporary vision scientists to be similar to those of the human visual system. They have been found to be particularly appropriate for texture representation and discrimination. In the spatial domain, a 2D Gabor filter is a Gaussian kernel function modulated by a sinusoidal plane wave (see Gabor transform). Some authors claim that simple cells in the visual cortex of mammalian brains can be modeled by Gabor functions. Thus, image analysis with Gabor filte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
