Many perception tasks are highly redundant functions of their input data
Rahul Ramesh, Anthony Bisulco, Ronald DiTullio, Linran Wei, Vijay Balasubramanian, Kostas Daniilidis, Pratik Chaudhari · COSYNE 2025
Natural images contain statistical redundancies that produce long-range spatial correlations and regularities such as edges, contours and textures (Simoncelli, 2003; van der Schaaf and van Hateren,1996; Hermundstad et al., 2014). The efficient coding hypothesis suggests that the brain optimizes sensory representation by removing such redundancy in input stimuli (Barlow et al., 1961). However, critics argue that an efficient code that simply encodes the inputs may not necessarily be useful for the tasks performed by an organism (Simoncelli and Olshausen, 2001; Barlow, 2001), i.e., neural system
ePoster · Neuroscience