Pre-training artificial neural networks with spontaneous retinal activity improves image prediction
Lilly May, Alice Dauphin, Julijana Gjorgjieva · COSYNE 2023
The processing of natural visual environments rich with motion is central to animal survival. Many aspects of perceiving and detecting visual motion are already mature before the onset of visual experience. How the visual system develops to enable these functions in the absence of external stimuli remains unclear. A prominent transient feature of developing circuits is the ability to generate complex spatiotemporal patterns of spontaneous activity, even before sensory organs mature. For example, before vision onset in the mammalian retina, activity propagates in the form of spatiotemporally st
Fri, Mar 10, 2023