A Bio-inspired Model for Image Representation and Image Analysis

This paper proposes a model for image representation and image analysis using a multi-layer neural network, which is rooted in the human vision system. Having complex neural layers to represent and process information, the biological vision system is far more efficient than machine vision system. The neural model simulate non-classical receptive field of ganglion cell and its local feedback control circuit, and can represent images, beyond pixel level, self-adaptively and regularly. The results of experiments, rebuilding, distribution and contour detection, prove this method can represent image faithfully with low cost, and can produce a compact and abstract approximation to facilitate successive image segmentation and integration. This representation schema is good at extracting spatial relationships from different components of images and highlighting foreground objects from background, especially for nature images with complicated scenes. Further it can be applied to object recognition or image classification tasks in future.