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Statistical Learning in Vision

delete2022-09-15
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József Fiser *
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Gábor Lengyel
DOI:10.1146/annurev-vision-100720-103343delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Vision and learning have long been considered to be two areas of research linked only distantly. However, recent developments in vision research have changed the conceptual definition of vision from a signal-evaluating process to a goal-oriented interpreting process, and this shift binds learning, together with the resulting internal representations, intimately to vision. In this review, we consider various types of learning (perceptual, statistical, and rule/abstract) associated with vision in the past decades and argue that they represent differently specialized versions of the fundamental learning process, which must be captured in its entirety when applied to complex visual processes. We show why the generalized version of statistical learning can provide the appropriate setup for such a unified treatment of learning in vision, what computational framework best accommodates this kind of statistical learning, and what plausible neural scheme could feasibly implement this framework. Finally, we list the challenges that the field of statistical learning faces in fulfilling the promise of being the right vehicle for advancing our understanding of vision in its entirety.
Keywords:
perceptual learning
statistical learning
rule learning
structure learning
probabilistic computation
hierarchical Bayesian modeling

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Annual Review of Marine Science cover
Annual Review of Marine Science
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18.9
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University of Rochester
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