Summary of Tracking Objects That Change in Appearance with Phase Synchrony, by Sabine Muzellec et al.
Tracking objects that change in appearance with phase synchrony
by Sabine Muzellec, Drew Linsley, Alekh K. Ashok, Ennio Mingolla, Girik Malik, Rufin VanRullen, Thomas Serre
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel deep learning circuit is proposed that can learn to control attention to features independently of their location in the world through neural synchrony. The complex-valued recurrent neural network (CV-RNN) is designed to precisely track objects as their appearances and locations change, a capability associated with computing through neural synchrony. The CV-RNN is compared to human object tracking abilities and other deep neural networks (DNNs) on the FeatureTracker challenge, which asks observers to track objects as they move about and change appearance. While state-of-the-art DNNs struggled, the CV-RNN performed similarly to humans, providing a computational proof-of-concept for the role of phase synchronization in object tracking. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper explores how our brains can keep track of objects that change shape or location. It proposes a new way of using computers to do this, called a complex-valued recurrent neural network (CV-RNN). This CV-RNN is tested on a task where it needs to follow objects as they move and change appearance. The results show that the CV-RNN can do this in a way that’s similar to how humans do it. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Deep learning » Neural network » Object tracking » Rnn
