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With the advent of the cheap digital camera we have the ability to overwhelm ourselves with digital images. Thus, there is a need to be able to describe the contents of images in a condensed manner. This description must contain information about the content of the images rather than just a statistical description of the pixels. Measurements of the activity in the brain of small mammals indicate that image information is converted to small one-dimensional signals. These signals are dependent upon the shapes contained in the input stimulus. This is a drastic reduction in the amount of information used to represent the input and therefore is much easier to process.
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Lindblad, T., Kinser, J.M. (2013). Image Signatures. In: Image Processing using Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36877-6_10
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