3 Specifications

System Nodes

The implementation is composed of the following nodes:

RETINA:

• RetinaProcess: It is in charge of transduction, converting RGB images into activations of the LMS cones.
• BasicMotion: Perform motion detection by lighting difference, creating a binary matrix with the areas where there is movement or change.

LGN:

• LGNSimpleOpponentCells: Convert LMS activations to DKL color space

V1:

• V1DoubleOpponent: Performs the double opponent process on the DKL matrices, obtaining the D'K'L' matrices
• V1SimpleCells: Obtaining edges with specific orientations through convolutions with Gabor filters
• V1ComplexCells: Obtaining the spatial invariance of the edges
• V1HyperComplex: Obtaining the selectivity of edges with specific lengths
• V1BinocularSimpleCells: Obtains activation of binocular simple cells
• V1BinocularComplexCells: Obtains activation of binocular complex cells and normalized complex cells
• V1BinocularMergeProcess: It performs a fusion of the binocular activations of different filter types.
• V1MotionCellsNew: Detect edge movement with specific orientations, method is different compared to 2018 implementation

V2:

• V2AngularCells: Obtaining angular selectivity
• V2CurvatureCells: Specific curvature maps are obtained
• V2CornerMotion: Obtaining the movement of corners

V3:

• V3DisparityRange: Performs the relative disparity calculation

V4:

• V4SimpleShapeCells: Performs simple shape selectivity, without scale invariance
• V4SimpleShapeScaleInv: Join the simple shape patches of various scales into an activation map
• V4Color: Assign the color labels

MT:

• MTComponentCells: Merges V1 motion maps from different filter types, plus reduces resolution
• MTPatternCells: Calculates the pattern motion, then it creates an matrix of colors to display

MST:

• MSTPolarCells: Get the polar motion matrices
• MSTTemplateCells: Not implemented

Alert:

• AlertProcess: Change the sample rate or system animation with 3 alert levels

TestAttention:

• FeedbackProcess: Process to test the modulation mechanism, send a modulation matrix to several matrices

Activity diagram

This is the activity diagram where the arrows correspond to the spikes sent to small nodes

Packacke diagram

The system package diagram is as follows

SRC folder structure

├───generator
│   └───graph
├───gui
│   └───components
├───imgio
├───mapOpener
├───matrix
├───middlewareVision
│   ├───config
│   └───nodes
│       ├───External
│       └───Visual
│           ├───LGN
│           ├───MST
│           ├───MT
│           ├───Retina
│           ├───V1
│           ├───V2
│           ├───V3
│           └───V4
├───MiniPrograms
├───spike
├───utils
│   └───filters
└───VisualMemory
    ├───LGNCells
    ├───MSTCells
    ├───MTCells
    ├───V1Cells
    ├───V2Cells
    ├───V3Cells
    └───V4Cells