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Quantitative Biology > Neurons and Cognition
Title: Modeling Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention with a Neurodynamic Model of V1
(Submitted on 4 Apr 2019 (v1), revised 3 May 2019 (this version, v2), latest version 18 Nov 2019 (v3))
Abstract: Previous studies in that line suggested that lateral interactions of V1 cells are responsible, among other visual effects, of bottom-up visual attention (alternatively named visual salience or saliency). Our objective is to mimic these connections in the visual system with a neurodynamic network of firing-rate neurons. Early subcortical processes (i.e. retinal and thalamic) are functionally simulated. An implementation of the cortical magnification function is included to define the retinotopical projections towards V1, processing neuronal activity for each distinct view during scene observation. Novel computational definitions of top-down inhibition (in terms of inhibition of return and selection mechanisms), are also proposed to predict attention in Free-Viewing and Visual Search conditions. Results show that our model outpeforms other biologically-inpired models of saliency prediction as well as to predict visual saccade sequences during free viewing. We also show how temporal and spatial characteristics of inhibition of return can improve prediction of saccades, as well as how distinct search strategies (in terms of feature-selective or category-specific inhibition) predict attention at distinct image contexts.
Submission history
From: David Berga [view email][v1] Thu, 4 Apr 2019 18:33:15 GMT (8050kb,D)
[v2] Fri, 3 May 2019 22:15:23 GMT (7585kb,D)
[v3] Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:28:54 GMT (8065kb,D)
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