Topic: form and motion

A fundamental goal of visual perception is to generate informative representations that support downstream tasks. Doing so requires disentangling the raw image stream into representations that reflect its underlying causes - i.e., form and motion. Therefore, we propose a generative model containing separate latent variables representing form and motion. The model is related to prior work on sparse coding and slow feature analysis, but goes further by positing multiplicative interactions between latent variables for invariant object representations and for equivariant transformations representi