Feature Learning Architecture Taxonomy and Neuroscience Background

Abstract

In many respects, computer vision practitioners are now being outpaced by neuroscientists, who are leading the way, modeling computer vision systems directly after neurobiology, and borrowing from computer vision and imaging to simulate the biology and theories of the human visual system. The state of the art in computer vision is rapidly moving towards synthetic brains and synthetic vision systems, similar to other biological sciences where we see synthetic biology such as prosthetics, robotics, and genomic engineering. Computer vision is becoming a subset of neuroscience and vision sciences, where researchers implement complete synthetic vision models, leveraging computer vision and imaging methods, leaving some computer vision and imaging methods in the wake of history.