DSDT Meetup August 2021
We see twice - or why the fly’s brain is better than our big brains when swapping is involved. Vision came early in evolution; trilobites could see more than 500 million years ago. Yet, our understanding of visual processes is cortex-centric, a recent structure. Similarly, deep-neural network architectures are often loosely based on the visual cortex. One might ask: does a computerk really need to “consciously” see? In this presentation, I will share completely novel findings from brain implant data in rodents showing that there exists an evolutionary ancient brain region, the superior colliculus, that we share with mosquitos, fishes and birds, which can compute complex scenes and can even process categorical information. We will then discuss how we could use this fast acting, wide-reaching circuitry to come up with novel neural network architectures. These new networks could be useful for fast-acting machine-vision models with far reaching potential, such as for scene navigation.
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