Connectionist Architecture of the Pulvinar Nucleus for Focusing Visual Attention on Salient Features

Author

David Lee Enke, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
Cihan H. Dagli, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow

Abstract

Humans have the ability to perform many visual attention tasks with ease. Consequently, it should prove advantageous to develop models based on natural human visual attention. The following will present a brief review highlighting certain structures and interactions involved in the primate visual system, along with a description and initial model based on the pulvinar nucleus, a thalamic structure speculated to be important for attentional processing. The resulting pulvinar model gives an artificial system the ability to attend to salient, or 'pop-out' features within the vision system's field of view. A discussion of the architecture's biological significance, including its practical use for detecting uncharacteristic features, will also be presented.

Recommended Citation

D. L. Enke and C. H. Dagli, "Connectionist Architecture of the Pulvinar Nucleus for Focusing Visual Attention on Salient Features," Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, vol. 7, pp. 29 - 35, Dec 1997.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

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Article - Conference proceedings

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English

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Publication Date

01 Dec 1997