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Stimulus arrays are inevitably presented at different positions on the retina in visual tasks, even those that nominally require fixation. In particular, this applies to many perc...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
We introduce total wire length as salient complexity measure for an analysis of the circuit complexity of sensory processing in biological neural systems and neuromorphic engineer...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
NIPS
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13 years 11 months ago
2000
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has previously been shown to be a useful decomposition for multivariate data. Two different multiplicative algorithms for NMF are analyzed....
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
Condensation, a form of likelihood-weighted particle filtering, has been successfully used to infer the shapes of highly constrained "active" contours in video sequences...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
In this paper, we derive a second order mean field theory for directed graphical probability models. By using an information theoretic argument it is shown how this can be done in...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
In memory consolidation, declarative memories which initially require the hippocampus for their recall, ultimately become independent of it. Consolidation has been the focus of nu...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
NIPS
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13 years 11 months ago
2000
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
2000
Competitive learning is a technique for training classification and clustering networks. We have designed and fabricated an 11transistor primitive, that we term an automaximizing ...