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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically Plausible Colour Naming Model Type Conference Article
  Year 2015 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP2015 Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Liverpool; UK; August 2015  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2015 Serial 2660  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Biologically plausible boundary detection Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication 27th British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal  
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  Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on two benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.  
  Address York; UK; September 2016  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016a Serial 2867  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit  openurl
  Title Dynamically Adjusted Surround Contrast Enhances Boundary Detection, European Conference on Visual Perception Type Conference Article
  Year 2016 Publication European Conference on Visual Perception Abbreviated Journal  
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  Address Barcelona; Spain; August 2016  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2016b Serial 2900  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Colour Constancy Beyond the Classical Receptive Field Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Abbreviated Journal TPAMI  
  Volume 40 Issue 9 Pages 2081 - 2094  
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  Abstract The problem of removing illuminant variations to preserve the colours of objects (colour constancy) has already been solved by the human brain using mechanisms that rely largely on centre-surround computations of local contrast. In this paper we adopt some of these biological solutions described by long known physiological findings into a simple, fully automatic, functional model (termed Adaptive Surround Modulation or ASM). In ASM, the size of a visual neuron's receptive field (RF) as well as the relationship with its surround varies according to the local contrast within the stimulus, which in turn determines the nature of the centre-surround normalisation of cortical neurons higher up in the processing chain. We modelled colour constancy by means of two overlapping asymmetric Gaussian kernels whose sizes are adapted based on the contrast of the surround pixels, resembling the change of RF size. We simulated the contrast-dependent surround modulation by weighting the contribution of each Gaussian according to the centre-surround contrast. In the end, we obtained an estimation of the illuminant from the set of the most activated RFs' outputs. Our results on three single-illuminant and one multi-illuminant benchmark datasets show that ASM is highly competitive against the state-of-the-art and it even outperforms learning-based algorithms in one case. Moreover, the robustness of our model is more tangible if we consider that our results were obtained using the same parameters for all datasets, that is, mimicking how the human visual system operates. These results might provide an insight on how dynamical adaptation mechanisms contribute to make object's colours appear constant to us.  
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  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2018a Serial 2990  
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Author Arash Akbarinia; C. Alejandro Parraga edit   pdf
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  Title Feedback and Surround Modulated Boundary Detection Type Journal Article
  Year 2018 Publication International Journal of Computer Vision Abbreviated Journal IJCV  
  Volume 126 Issue 12 Pages 1367–1380  
  Keywords Boundary detection; Surround modulation; Biologically-inspired vision  
  Abstract Edges are key components of any visual scene to the extent that we can recognise objects merely by their silhouettes. The human visual system captures edge information through neurons in the visual cortex that are sensitive to both intensity discontinuities and particular orientations. The “classical approach” assumes that these cells are only responsive to the stimulus present within their receptive fields, however, recent studies demonstrate that surrounding regions and inter-areal feedback connections influence their responses significantly. In this work we propose a biologically-inspired edge detection model in which orientation selective neurons are represented through the first derivative of a Gaussian function resembling double-opponent cells in the primary visual cortex (V1). In our model we account for four kinds of receptive field surround, i.e. full, far, iso- and orthogonal-orientation, whose contributions are contrast-dependant. The output signal from V1 is pooled in its perpendicular direction by larger V2 neurons employing a contrast-variant centre-surround kernel. We further introduce a feedback connection from higher-level visual areas to the lower ones. The results of our model on three benchmark datasets show a big improvement compared to the current non-learning and biologically-inspired state-of-the-art algorithms while being competitive to the learning-based methods.  
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  Notes NEUROBIT; 600.068; 600.072 Approved no  
  Call Number Admin @ si @ AkP2018b Serial 2991  
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