[4I3-GS-2] Machine learning: Image recognition and video analysis

[4I3-GS-2-01] Application of Surround Inhibition Mechanism To Image Recognition

〇Mamoru Sugamoto¹, Tsukasa Yumibayashi², Sou Katagiri⁴, Akio Sugamoto^3,4, Naoaki Fujimoto⁵, Colin Gordon Redpath⁶ (1. apprhythm inc., 2. Otsuma Women’s University,, 3. Ochanomizu University,, 4. The Open University of Japan, 5. Tama Art University, 6. C&T Research Lab.)

Keywords:Surround Inhibition Mechanism, Pattern Recognition, Image Recognition, Edge Device

Hartline discovered that the horseshoe crab visual cells have a mechanism of surround inhibition. The mechanism makes the strong stimulus stronger and the weak stimulus weaker by adjusting the strength of the stimulus between neighboring visual cells. Via this mechanism, horseshoe crabs have succeeded in capturing the outside world more clearly. In this paper, referring to the surround inhibition mechanism, various new types of edge detection method are dened other than the Laplacian filter.