Over the past few years there has been substantial progress in the development of techniques for recognizing generic categories of objects in images, such as automobiles, bicycles, airplanes, and human faces. Much of this progress can be traced to two underlying technical adva...

Google TechTalks January 17, 2006 Tom Dean ABSTRACT Borrowing insights from computational neuroscience, we present a class of generative models well suited to modeling perceptual processes and an algorithm for learning their parameters that promises to scale to learning very...