Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!mirsa!luong
From: luong@mirsa.inria.fr (Tuan Luong)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: A theoretical question: multiple patterns and synchrony
Message-ID: <761@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 9 Apr 90 13:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: luong@mirsa.inria.fr (Quang-Tuan Luong)
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)
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Consider a neural network with several local minima of the energy function,
each of which representing a different pattern, and having differents slopes 
and depths.
Consider now an image containing different patterns among those represented
in that network. Each of these ones will be recognized but the different
local minima will be reached at different times. This means that vision in a
temporal process: object 1 is perceived, then object 2 ...
So, how to create a representation of a composed object made of an assembly 
of different patterns ?
One can say that the temporal synchrony of the units is a representation of 
the global identity, but how to obtain this synchrony between the different 
parts of the image ?