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Beyond independence and sparseness in models of natural image statistics

Aapo Hyvarinen

Helsinki University of Technology


A fundamental model of natural image statistics is independent component analysis which is essentially similar to linear sparse coding. In this talk, I will discuss some extensions and alternatives to these models. First, modeling the dependencies of the simple cell outputs leads to models of complex cells and topography. Second, I consider natural video data, and replace the sparseness criterion by temporal correlations. This leads to similar properties than sparseness: advantages of the two approaches are considered.