A realistic mammalian retinal model implemented on complex cell CNN universal machine
D. Bálya, C. Rekeczky, T. Roska · 2003
The visual system is probably the most important sensory modality for humans as well as for mammals. Its first and best-known part is the retina, which is not a mere photoreceptor or static camera but a sophisticated feature preprocessor with a continuous input and several parallel output channels. These channels build up a "visual language" and any realistic mammalian retina model should generate the elements of this visual language. The framework of mammalian retinal modeling via multi-layer CNN has been recently published. In the present paper we show the transformation of this model into a CNN-UM algorithm and the design steps of the implementation of this complex visual language. The analogic algorithm consists of a series of different complex-cell CNN dynamics. The algorithm is feasible on a recently fabricated complex cell CNN-UM chip. The decomposition method of the multilayer mammalian retina model will be discussed in detail.