Analysis of cluttered scenes using an elastic matching approach for stereo images.

abstract：:We study active learning (AL) based on gaussian processes (GPs) for efficiently enumerating all of the local minimum solutions of a black-box function. This problem is challenging because local solutions are characterized by their zero gradient and positive-definite Hessian properties, but those derivatives cannot be ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Inatsu Y,Sugita D,Toyoura K,Takeuchi I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have employed simple linear dynamical systems to model trial-by-trial dynamics in various sensorimotor learning tasks. Here we explore the theoretical and practical considerations that arise when employing the general class of linear dynamical systems (LDS) as a model for sensorimotor learning. In this ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Cheng S,Sabes PN

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans have the ability to learn novel motor tasks while manipulating the environment. Several models of motor learning have been proposed in the literature, but few of them address the problem of retention and interference of motor memory. The modular selection and identification for control (MOSAIC) model, originall...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lonini L,Dipietro L,Zollo L,Guglielmelli E,Krebs HI

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most conventional policy gradient reinforcement learning (PGRL) algorithms neglect (or do not explicitly make use of) a term in the average reward gradient with respect to the policy parameter. That term involves the derivative of the stationary state distribution that corresponds to the sensitivity of its distributio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Morimura T,Uchibe E,Yoshimoto J,Peters J,Doya K

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stochastic model of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) postulates that single synapses presented with a single spike pair exhibit all-or-none quantal jumps in synaptic strength. The amplitudes of the jumps are independent of spiking timing, but their probabilities do depend on spiking timing. By making the amp...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural networks are often employed as tools in classification tasks. The use of large networks increases the likelihood of the task's being learned, although it may also lead to increased complexity. Pruning is an effective way of reducing the complexity of large networks. We present discriminant components pruning (D...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Koene RA,Takane Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling stereo transparency with physiologically plausible mechanisms is challenging because in such frameworks, large receptive fields mix up overlapping disparities, whereas small receptive fields can reliably compute only small disparities. It seems necessary to combine information across scales. A coarse-to-fine ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Li Z,Qian N

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an analytical framework for the adaptations of neural systems that adapt its internal structure on the basis of subjective probabilities constructed by computation of randomly received input signals. A principled approach is provided with the key property that it defines a probability density model that al...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Khaikine M,Holthausen K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty coming from the noise in its neurons and the ill-posed nature of many tasks plagues neural computations. Maybe surprisingly, many studies show that the brain manipulates these forms of uncertainty in a probabilistically consistent and normative manner, and there is now a rich theoretical literature on the ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Huys QJ,Zemel RS,Natarajan R,Dayan P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this letter, we investigate the fundamental limits on how the interspike time of a neuron oscillator can be perturbed by the application of a bounded external control input (a current stimulus) with zero net electric charge accumulation. We use phase models to study the dynamics of neurons and derive charge-balance...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Dasanayake IS,Li JS

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze convergence of the expectation maximization (EM) and variational Bayes EM (VBEM) schemes for parameter estimation in noisy linear models. The analysis shows that both schemes are inefficient in the low-noise limit. The linear model with additive noise includes as special cases independent component analysis...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Petersen KB,Winther O,Hansen LK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address the problem of detecting the presence of a recurring stimulus by monitoring the voltage on a multiunit electrode located in a brain region densely populated by stimulus reactive neurons. Published experimental results suggest that under these conditions, when a stimulus is present, the measurements are gaus...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Nossenson N,Messer H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a model for the neural integrator based on hysteretic units connected by positive feedback. Hysteresis is assumed to emerge from the intrinsic properties of the cells. We consider the recurrent networks containing either bistable or multistable neurons. We apply our analysis to the oculomotor velocity-...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Nikitchenko M,Koulakov A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We derive analytically the solution for the output rate of the ideal coincidence detector. The solution is for an arbitrary number of input spike trains with identical binomial count distributions (which includes Poisson statistics as a special case) and identical arbitrary pairwise cross-correlations, from zero corre...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Mikula S,Niebur E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculation of the total conductance change induced by multiple synapses at a given membrane compartment remains one of the most time-consuming processes in biophysically realistic neural network simulations. Here we show that this calculation can be achieved in a highly efficient way even for multiply converging syna...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Köhn J,Wörgötter F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a first-order nonhomogeneous Markov model for the interspike-interval density of a continuously stimulated spiking neuron. The model allows the conditional interspike-interval density and the stationary interspike-interval density to be expressed as products of two separate functions, one of which describes...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tapson J,Jin C,van Schaik A,Etienne-Cummings R

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The instantaneous phase of neural rhythms is important to many neuroscience-related studies. In this letter, we show that the statistical sampling properties of three instantaneous phase estimators commonly employed to analyze neuroscience data share common features, allowing an analytical investigation into their beh...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Lepage KQ,Kramer MA,Eden UT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous animal behaviors, such as locomotion in vertebrates, are produced by rhythmic contractions that alternate between two muscle groups. The neuronal networks generating such alternate rhythmic activity are generally thought to rely on pacemaker cells or well-designed circuits consisting of inhibitory and excitat...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Senn W,Wannier T,Kleinle J,Lüscher HR,Müller L,Streit J,Wyler K

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In learning theory, the training and test sets are assumed to be drawn from the same probability distribution. This assumption is also followed in practical situations, where matching the training and test distributions is considered desirable. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we show that mismatched training and test...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： González CR,Abu-Mostafa YS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a modular reinforcement learning architecture for nonlinear, nonstationary control tasks, which we call multiple model-based reinforcement learning (MMRL). The basic idea is to decompose a complex task into multiple domains in space and time based on the predictability of the environmental dynamics. The sys...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Doya K,Samejima K,Katagiri K,Kawato M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lossy compression and clustering fundamentally involve a decision about which features are relevant and which are not. The information bottleneck method (IB) by Tishby, Pereira, and Bialek ( 1999 ) formalized this notion as an information-theoretic optimization problem and proposed an optimal trade-off between throwin...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Strouse DJ,Schwab DJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new time-organized map (TOM) is presented for a better understanding of the self-organization and geometric structure of cortical signal representations. The algorithm extends the common self-organizing map (SOM) from the processing of purely spatial signals to the processing of spatiotemporal signals. The main ad...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Wiemer JC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural associative memories are perceptron-like single-layer networks with fast synaptic learning typically storing discrete associations between pairs of neural activity patterns. Previous work optimized the memory capacity for various models of synaptic learning: linear Hopfield-type rules, the Willshaw model employ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Knoblauch A

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptron (also referred to as McCulloch-Pitts neuron, or linear threshold gate) is commonly used as a simplified model for the discrimination and learning capability of a biological neuron. Criteria that tell us when a perceptron can implement (or learn to implement) all possible dichotomies over a given set of ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Legenstein R,Maass W

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hierarchical dynamical map is proposed as the basic framework for sensory cortical mapping. To show how the hierarchical dynamical map works in cognitive processes, we applied it to a typical cognitive task known as priming, in which cognitive performance is facilitated as a consequence of prior experience. Prior to...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Hoshino O,Inoue S,Kashimori Y,Kambara T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular fusion takes place over a limited region smaller than one degree of visual angle (Panum's fusional area), which is on the order of the range of preferred disparities measured in populations of disparity-tuned neurons in the visual cortex. However, the actual range of binocular disparities encountered in natu...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Tsang EK,Shi BE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different analytical expressions for the membrane potential distribution of membranes subject to synaptic noise have been proposed and can be very helpful in analyzing experimental data. However, all of these expressions are either approximations or limit cases, and it is not clear how they compare and which expressio...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Rudolph M,Destexhe A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we move our body to perform a movement task, our central nervous system selects a movement trajectory from an infinite number of possible trajectories under constraints that have been acquired through evolution and learning. Minimization of the energy cost has been suggested as a potential candidate for a constra...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Taniai Y,Nishii J

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volterra and Wiener series are perhaps the best-understood nonlinear system representations in signal processing. Although both approaches have enjoyed a certain popularity in the past, their application has been limited to rather low-dimensional and weakly nonlinear systems due to the exponential growth of the number...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Franz MO,Schölkopf B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a neural network that is capable of completing and correcting a spiking pattern given only a partial, noisy version. It operates in continuous time and represents information using the relative timing of individual spikes. The network is capable of correcting and recalling multiple patterns simultaneously. ...

journal_title：Neural computation

authors： Sterne P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00