Convolutional neural networks as a model of the visual system: Past, present, and future

GW Lindsay - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were inspired by early findings in the study of
biological vision. They have since become successful tools in computer vision and state-of …

Are deep neural networks adequate behavioral models of human visual perception?

FA Wichmann, R Geirhos - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are machine learning algorithms that have revolutionized
computer vision due to their remarkable successes in tasks like object classification and …

Beyond neural scaling laws: beating power law scaling via data pruning

B Sorscher, R Geirhos, S Shekhar… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Widely observed neural scaling laws, in which error falls off as a power of the training set
size, model size, or both, have driven substantial performance improvements in deep …

Partial success in closing the gap between human and machine vision

R Geirhos, K Narayanappa, B Mitzkus… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A few years ago, the first CNN surpassed human performance on ImageNet. However, it
soon became clear that machines lack robustness on more challenging test cases, a major …

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 …

A neural network walks into a lab: towards using deep nets as models for human behavior

WJ Ma, B Peters - arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02181, 2020 - arxiv.org
What might sound like the beginning of a joke has become an attractive prospect for many
cognitive scientists: the use of deep neural network models (DNNs) as models of human …

Convolutional neural networks for vision neuroscience: significance, developments, and outstanding issues

A Celeghin, A Borriero, D Orsenigo, M Diano… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are a class of machine learning models
predominately used in computer vision tasks and can achieve human-like performance …

Spiking representation learning for associative memories

N Ravichandran, A Lansner, P Herman - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Networks of interconnected neurons communicating through spiking signals offer the
bedrock of neural computations. Our brain's spiking neural networks have the computational …

Canonical circuit computations for computer vision

D Schmid, C Jarvers, H Neumann - Biological Cybernetics, 2023 - Springer
Advanced computer vision mechanisms have been inspired by neuroscientific findings.
However, with the focus on improving benchmark achievements, technical solutions have …