Frontiers call for papers
"Hierarchical object representations in the visual cortex and computer vision"
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Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, special issue on "Hierarchical object representations in the visual cortex and computer vision"
Over the past 40 years, neurobiology and computational neuroscience has proved that deeper understanding of visual processes in humans and non-human primates can lead to important advancements in computational perception theories and systems. One of the main difficulties that arises when designing automatic vision systems is developing a mechanism that can recognize - or simply find - an object when faced with all the possible variations that may occur in a natural scene, with the ease of the primate visual system. The area of the brain in primates that is dedicated at analyzing visual information is the visual cortex. The visual cortex performs a wide variety of complex tasks by means of simple operations. These seemingly simple operations are applied to several layers of neurons organized into a hierarchy, the layers representing increasingly complex, abstract intermediate processing stages.
In this special issue we propose to bring together current efforts in neurophysiology and computer vision in order 1) To understand how the visual cortex encodes an object from a starting point where neurons respond to lines, bars or edges to the representation of an object at the top of the hierarchy that is invariant to illumination, size, location, viewpoint, rotation and robust to occlusions and clutter; and 2) How the design of automatic vision systems benefit from that knowledge to get closer to human accuracy, efficiency and robustness to variations.
All articles become freely available upon publication and benefit from the unique marketing tools developed by Frontiers. As is the standard for Gold open-access journals, articles submitted to a research topic will be subject to a publishing fee.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec 9th 2013
Full paper submission deadline: Apr 1st 2014
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