Presentation 2021-03-04
What characteristics are acquired in coding self-motion from visual motion?
Daiki Nakamura, Hiroaki Gomi,
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Abstract(in English) Efficient coding is a prevailing computational models of sensory coding in the brain. If the sensory information is transformed by this coding mechanism, it could be expected that the neural activities represent sparse and efficient bases decomposed from input signals, independent of the output requirements. While this model was examined as the visual motion coding in the early visual processing, it has not been tested whether or not the characteristics derived by this coding are preserved in the motor output quickly induced by visual motion, which has been considered as a compensatory response to the self-motion. Here we examined this issue by developing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for estimating self-motion from sequential images taken by head-mount camera, and found a spatiotemporal frequency specificity which was similar to that of the motion-induced quick motor response. Interestingly, the specificity was affected by the velocity range of self-motion and a system limitation of the input image sampling. In addition, we analyzed internal representation of the CNN with several indexes employed in describing neural properties in visual cortexes, and found those representation changes in the CNN hierarchy as was found in the brain hierarchical processing. These results suggest that the spatiotemporal frequency specificity of the visually induced motor response is ascribed to the self-motion coding from visual motion rather than the efficient coding.
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Keyword(in English) Visual motion / Self-motion / Convolutional neural network / Manual following response / Ocular following response
Paper # NC2020-57
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2021/3/3(3days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Neuro Computing, Medical Engineering, etc.
Chair Kazuyuki Samejima(Tamagawa Univ) / Takashi Watanabe(Tohoku Univ.)
Vice Chair Rieko Osu(Waseda Univ.) / Ryuhei Okuno(Setsunan Univ.)
Secretary Rieko Osu(NTT) / Ryuhei Okuno(ATR)
Assistant Ken Takiyama(TUAT) / Nobuhiko Wagatsuma(Toho Univ.) / Akihiro Karashima(Tohoku Inst. of Tech.) / Jun Akazawa(Meiji Univ. of Integrative Medicine)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) What characteristics are acquired in coding self-motion from visual motion?
Sub Title (in English) Reconstruction of statistical relationship by neural network and its internal representation
Keyword(1) Visual motion
Keyword(2) Self-motion
Keyword(3) Convolutional neural network
Keyword(4) Manual following response
Keyword(5) Ocular following response
1st Author's Name Daiki Nakamura
1st Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories(NTT)
2nd Author's Name Hiroaki Gomi
2nd Author's Affiliation NTT Communication Science Laboratories(NTT)
Date 2021-03-04
Paper # NC2020-57
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) NC-403
Page pp.pp.83-88(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (NC)