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Sparse Identification of Contrast Gain Control in the Fruit Fly Photoreceptor and Amacrine Cell Layer
The fruit fly's natural visual environment is often characterized by light
intensities ranging across several orders of magnitude and by rapidly varying
contrast across space and time. Fruit fly photoreceptors robustly transduce
and, in conjunction with amacrine cells, process visual scenes and provide the
resulting signal to downstream targets. Here we model the first step of visual
processing in the photoreceptor-amacrine cell layer. We propose a novel
divisive normalization processor (DNP) for modeling the computation taking
place in the photoreceptor-amacrine cell layer. The DNP explicitly models the
photoreceptor feedforward and temporal feedback processing paths and the
spatio-temporal feedback path of the amacrine cells. We then formally
characterize the contrast gain control of the DNP and provide sparse
identification algorithms that can efficiently identify each the feedforward
and feedback DNP components. The algorithms presented here are the first
demonstration of tractable and robust identification of the components of a
divisive normalization processor. The sparse identification algorithms can be
readily employed in experimental settings, and their effectiveness is
demonstrated with several examples
A Motion Detection Algorithm Using Local Phase Information
Previous research demonstrated that global phase alone can be used to faithfully represent visual scenes. Here we provide a reconstruction algorithm by using only local phase information. We also demonstrate that local phase alone can be effectively used to detect local motion. The local phase-based motion detector is akin to models employed to detect motion in biological vision, for example, the Reichardt detector. The local phase-based motion detection algorithm introduced here consists of two building blocks. The first building block measures/evaluates the temporal change of the local phase. The temporal derivative of the local phase is shown to exhibit the structure of a second order Volterra kernel with two normalized inputs. We provide an efficient, FFT-based algorithm for implementing the change of the local phase. The second processing building block implements the detector; it compares the maximum of the Radon transform of the local phase derivative with a chosen threshold. We demonstrate examples of applying the local phase-based motion detection algorithm on several video sequences. We also show how the locally detected motion can be used for segmenting moving objects in video scenes and compare our local phase-based algorithm to segmentation achieved with a widely used optic flow algorithm
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Sparse identification of contrast gain control in the fruit fly photoreceptor and amacrine cell layer
The fruit flyâs natural visual environment is often characterized by light intensities ranging across several orders of magnitude and by rapidly varying contrast across space and time. Fruit fly photoreceptors robustly transduce and, in conjunction with amacrine cells, process visual scenes and provide the resulting signal to downstream targets. Here, we model the first step of visual processing in the photoreceptor-amacrine cell layer. We propose a novel divisive normalization processor (DNP) for modeling the computation taking place in the photoreceptor-amacrine cell layer. The DNP explicitly models the photoreceptor feedforward and temporal feedback processing paths and the spatio-temporal feedback path of the amacrine cells. We then formally characterize the contrast gain control of the DNP and provide sparse identification algorithms that can efficiently identify each the feedforward and feedback DNP components. The algorithms presented here are the first demonstration of tractable and robust identification of the components of a divisive normalization processor. The sparse identification algorithms can be readily employed in experimental settings, and their effectiveness is demonstrated with several examples
26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 3 - Meeting Abstracts - Antwerp, Belgium. 15â20 July 2017
This work was produced as part of the activities of FAPESP Research,\ud
Disseminations and Innovation Center for Neuromathematics (grant\ud
2013/07699-0, S. Paulo Research Foundation). NLK is supported by a\ud
FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship (grant 2016/03855-5). ACR is partially\ud
supported by a CNPq fellowship (grant 306251/2014-0)