Synthetic Vision

Preface

This work began in 2014 as I prototyped a synthetic model of the visual pathway, including volume learning, visual genomes, and visual DNA concepts, with details published in Appendix E of my previous book Computer Vision Metrics: Survey, Taxonomy and Analysis of Computer Vision, Visual Neuroscience, and Deep Learning, Textbook Edition (Springer) [1]. The motivation and hypothesis for this work is to create a complete visual pathway model from the eyes through the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) through the visual cortex through the higher-level learning and reasoning centers—a Synthetic Vision Model—based on the best neuroscience and computer vision research to date. Various ad hoc vision systems have been devised over recent history, ...