Harnessing Vision for Computation

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2008 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Perception, volume 37, pages 1,131-1,134 (issn: 0301-0066, eissn: 1468-4233,

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Authors: Mark, Changizi;

doi: 10.1068/p6057

pmid: 18773734

Harnessing Vision for Computation

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Abstract

Might it be possible to harness the visual system to carry out artificial computations, somewhat akin to how DNA has been harnessed to carry out computation? I provide the beginnings of a research programme attempting to do this. In particular, new techniques are described for building ‘visual circuits’ (or ‘visual software’) using wire, NOT, OR, and AND gates in a visual modality such that our visual system acts as ‘visual hardware’ computing the circuit, and generating a resultant perception which is the output.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States

Keywords

Pattern Recognition, Visual, Computational Biology, Humans, Nerve Net, Vision, Ocular

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