Pattern recognition system with top-down process of mental rotation

Abstract

A new model which can recognize rotated, distorted, scaled, shifted and noised patterns is proposed. The model is constructed based on psychological experiments in a mental rotation. The model has two types of processes: (i) one is a bottom-up process in which pattern recognition is realized by means of a rotation-invariant neocognitron and a standard neocognitron and (ii) the other is a top-down process in which a mental rotation is executed by means of a model of associative recall in visual pattern recognition. In computer simulations, it is shown that the model can recognize rotated patterns without training those patterns.