Synthetic Vision

Chapter 3 Memory Model and Visual Cortex

I know who I am. I remember everything.

—Jason Bourne

Overview

We model the visual cortex as a smart memory with dedicated processing centers, and for convenience sometimes refer to the entire visual cortex and associated memory as the memory model. In the visual genome model (VGM), visual feature memory is located in separate regions of the visual cortex, while agents that model learned intelligence reside in the higher-level PFC memory. We follow neurobiological research, as discussed throughout this chapter, to model the visual cortex as separate regions containing tightly coupled local processing centers with local memory, so each region performs specialized feature metric learning and comparisons. ...