Multifeature-based surround inhibition improves contour detection in natural images

KF Yang, CY Li, YJ Li - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this section, we first give experimental results on a natural image dataset (RuG40) [34…
surround inhibition in our model offers advantages over single-feature based surround inhibition

Cortical surround interactions and perceptual salience via natural scene statistics

R Coen-Cagli, P Dayan, O Schwartz - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… We introduce a model of natural images that includes … We optimized the parameters of the
model on natural image … may control whether or not surround inhibition is active on a given …

Center–surround interaction with adaptive inhibition: A computational model for contour detection

C Zeng, Y Li, C Li - NeuroImage, 2011 - Elsevier
… Contour extraction on real images Some natural images are employed to verify the performance
of our model for contour extraction, and the real images used in this study are the whole …

[HTML][HTML] Components of bottom-up gaze allocation in natural images

RJ Peters, A Iyer, L Itti, C Koch - Vision research, 2005 - Elsevier
… humans while free-viewing complex natural and artificial scenes. That study used a definition
of salience based on local detectors with coarse global surround inhibition. Here, we use a …

Surround suppression and sparse coding in visual and barrel cortices

RNS Sachdev, MR Krause, JA Mazer - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2012 - frontiersin.org
… lateral inhibitory mechanisms contribute to surround … statistical redundancies associated with
natural stimuli by increasing … Imaging studies provide direct physiological evidence of a fast, …

Flexible gating of contextual influences in natural vision

R Coen-Cagli, A Kohn, O Schwartz - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
… by natural images. Previous work with simple stimuli has shown that surround suppression
… of both excitation and inhibition, a distinguishing feature of an inhibition-stabilized network. …

[HTML][HTML] A robust contour detection operator with combined push-pull inhibition and surround suppression

D Melotti, K Heimbach, A Rodríguez-Sánchez… - Information …, 2020 - Elsevier
… operator that combines push-pull and surround inhibition. It turns out that this … natural
images of size 512 × 512 pixels. Each image is coupled with a hand drawn ground truth image

An improved model for surround suppression by steerable filters and multilevel inhibition with application to contour detection

G Papari, N Petkov - Pattern Recognition, 2011 - Elsevier
… detector on a dataset of 40 natural images. In this section, we compare the output of the
proposed algorithms with the outputs of the previous inhibition term and the standard Canny …

Surround modulation: A bio-inspired connectivity structure for convolutional neural networks

H Hasani, M Soleymani… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… of surround modulation, we designed new excitatory-inhibitory connections between a unit
and its surrounding … We optimized networks for object recognition on natural images and then …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple components of surround modulation in primary visual cortex: multiple neural circuits with multiple functions?

L Nurminen, A Angelucci - Vision research, 2014 - Elsevier
… to V1 surround modulation, blockade of intra-V1 inhibition does not completely abolish
near-… that the tuning of surround modulation reflects the statistics of natural images, thus aiding …