Biological convolutions improve DNN robustness to noise and generalisation

BD Evans, G Malhotra, JS Bowers - Neural Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved superhuman
accuracy on standard image classification benchmarks. Their success has reignited …

Generalisation in humans and deep neural networks

R Geirhos, CRM Temme, J Rauber… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We compare the robustness of humans and current convolutional deep neural networks
(DNNs) on object recognition under twelve different types of image degradations. First, using …

Comparing deep neural networks against humans: object recognition when the signal gets weaker

R Geirhos, DHJ Janssen, HH Schütt, J Rauber… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
Human visual object recognition is typically rapid and seemingly effortless, as well as largely
independent of viewpoint and object orientation. Until very recently, animate visual systems …

Learning from brains how to regularize machines

Z Li, W Brendel, E Walker, E Cobos… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Despite impressive performance on numerous visual tasks, Convolutional Neural Networks
(CNNs)---unlike brains---are often highly sensitive to small perturbations of their input, eg …

[HTML][HTML] Noise-trained deep neural networks effectively predict human vision and its neural responses to challenging images

H Jang, D McCormack, F Tong - PLoS biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) for object classification have been argued to provide the most
promising model of the visual system, accompanied by claims that they have attained or …

Towards robust vision by multi-task learning on monkey visual cortex

S Safarani, A Nix, K Willeke… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Deep neural networks set the state-of-the-art across many tasks in computer vision, but their
generalization ability to simple image distortions is surprisingly fragile. In contrast, the …

Empirical advocacy of bio-inspired models for robust image recognition

H Machiraju, OH Choung, MH Herzog… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have revolutionized computer vision and are
often advocated as good models of the human visual system. However, there are currently …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative biology approach to DNN modeling of vision: A focus on differences, not similarities

B Lonnqvist, A Bornet, A Doerig, MH Herzog - Journal of vision, 2021 - jov.arvojournals.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized computer science and are now widely
used for neuroscientific research. A hot debate has ensued about the usefulness of DNNs as …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering image contrast in object classification deep networks

A Akbarinia, R Gil-Rodriguez - Vision Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to explain how complex behaviour arises from neuronal
activity. A comparable level of complexity also emerges in deep neural networks (DNNs) …

Harmonizing the object recognition strategies of deep neural networks with humans

T Fel, IF Rodriguez Rodriguez… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The many successes of deep neural networks (DNNs) over the past decade have largely
been driven by computational scale rather than insights from biological intelligence. Here …