Presentation 2022-09-29
Tuning properties to Second-order grating in Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)
Jamal Shah, Yoshiyuki R. Shiraishi, Tomoyuki Naito, Takahisa M. Sanada,
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Abstract(in English) Second-order visual feature, such as texture defined edge or contrast defined edge, is an important visual cue for object recognition. In the cortical visual system, neurons selective to second-order feature were found in area 18 and these neurons showed similar selectivity to luminance defined grating and the second-order gratings [1][2] Object recognition ability of Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) achieved the same level as humans. Since both cortical visual system and DCNN have hierarchical architecture, the DCNN might also process the 2nd-order feature in the middle layers. Here we analyzed response properties of internal units in VGG16 to luminance defined grating and the Second-order grating stimuli. VGG16 shows high neural predictability of area V4 [3]. By varying orientation and spatial frequency of luminance grating and envelope of the Second-order grating, we measured tuning characteristics of internal units in all layers. Many of units in middle layers (such as Block3) showed clear selectivity to envelope orientation and spatial frequency. Some of them showed similar tuning properties both in luminance defined grating and Second-order grating. This result suggests that VGG16 might follow similar manner for object representation as cortical visual system.
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Keyword(in English) Receptive field / Visual cortex / Orientation tuning / Object recognition
Paper # NC2022-36
Date of Issue 2022-09-22 (NC)

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Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2022/9/29(2days)
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Place (in English) Tohoku Univ.
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Topics (in English) Brain Architecture, NC, ME
Chair Hiroshi Yamakawa(Univ of Tokyo) / Junichi Hori(Niigata Univ.)
Vice Chair Hirokazu Tanaka(Tokyo City Univ.) / Hisashi Yoshida(Kinki Univ.)
Secretary Hirokazu Tanaka(NTT) / Hisashi Yoshida(NICT)
Assistant Yoshimasa Tawatsuji(Waseda Univ.) / Tomoki Kurikawa(KMU) / Emi Yuda(Tohoku Univ) / Miki Kaneko(Osaka Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
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Title (in English) Tuning properties to Second-order grating in Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)
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Keyword(1) Receptive field
Keyword(2) Visual cortex
Keyword(3) Orientation tuning
Keyword(4) Object recognition
1st Author's Name Jamal Shah
1st Author's Affiliation Iwate Prefectural University(Iwate Prefectural Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Yoshiyuki R. Shiraishi
2nd Author's Affiliation HobHop, Inc.(HobHop, Inc.)
3rd Author's Name Tomoyuki Naito
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
4th Author's Name Takahisa M. Sanada
4th Author's Affiliation Iwate Prefectural University(Iwate Prefectural Univ.)
Date 2022-09-29
Paper # NC2022-36
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) NC-195
Page pp.pp.16-19(NC),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2022-09-22 (NC)