Biologically Inspired Edge Detection using Spiking Neural Networks and Hexagonal Images

M Clogenson; D Kerr; TM McGinnity; SA Coleman; Qingxiang Wu

doi:10.5220/0003682103810384

Biologically Inspired Edge Detection using Spiking Neural Networks and Hexagonal Images

M Clogenson
, D Kerr
, TM McGinnity
, SA Coleman
, Qingxiang Wu

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Abstract

Inspired by the structure and behaviour of the human visual system, we extend existing work using spiking neural networks for edge detection with a biologically plausible hexagonal pixel arrangement. Standard digital images are converted into a hexagonal pixel representation before being processed with a spiking neural network with scalable hexagonally shaped receptive fields. The performance is compared with different sized receptive fields implemented on standard rectangular images. Results illustrate that using hexagonal-shaped receptive fields provides improved performance over a range of scales compared with standard rectangular shaped receptive fields and images.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown Host Publication
Publisher	SciTePress
Pages	381-384
Number of pages	1000
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5220/0003682103810384
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2011
Event	International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - Paris, France Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Conference	International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications
Period	1/01/11 → …

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Spiking neural network
Edge detection
Multi-scale hexagonal receptive fields

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