Campos receptivos similares às wavelets de Haar são gerados a partir da codificação eficiente de imagens urbanas;V1

Abstract

Efficient coding of natural images yields filters similar to the Gabor-like receptive fields of simple cells of primary visual cortex. However, natural and man-made images have different statistical proprieties. Here we show that a simple theoretical analysis of power spectra in a sparse model suggests that natural and man-made images would need specific filters for each group. Indeed, when applying sparse coding to man-made scenes, we found both Gabor and Haar wavelet-like filters. Furthermore, we found that man-made images when projected on those filters yielded smaller mean squared error than when projected on Gabor-like filters only. Thus, as natural and man-made images require different filters to be efficiently represented, these results suggest that besides Gabor, the primary visual cortex should also have cells with Haar-like receptive fields.