Recent studies around the neocognitron

Abstract

Neocognitron, which was proposed by Fukushima, is recently studied in several styles. In this paper, we introduce these studies from the both engineering and biological sides. From the engineering side, we discussed about the ability of the pattern classifier of the Neocognitron and relationship to the "convolutional net", which is recently well studied in the field of pattern recognition. From the biological side, we tried to explain the recent result of a biological experiment with the Neocognitron, and compare it with another model. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.