{"title":"The Mechanism of Motion Direction Detection Based on Hassenstein-Reichardt Model","authors":"Chenyang Yan, Yuki Todo, Zheng Tang","doi":"10.1109/ICCIA52886.2021.00042","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Motion direction detection is an important part of the visual system. In the past few decades, research on the directional selectivity of motion detection is of great progress. However, they are all concentrated on the cellular level and lack a full understanding in systemic level. To understand motion direction detection, we present a novel motion detection mechanism using the Hassenstein-Reichardt (HR) model. We mimic a subunit of the HR model, propose a local motion direction detective neuron which can detect a specific direction of motion by performing a multiplication operation on one photoreceptor input with a fixed temporal delay and its adjacent photoreceptor input without delay. The proposed neuron can be extended to a two-dimensional vision, for ease of understanding, 8 neurons are implemented in detecting 8 directions of motion. Furthermore, we assume that each photoreceptor in the receptive field has its own local motion direction detective neurons and therefore we can obtain the global motion direction by accumulating the number of activations of all local motion direction detective neurons. The computer simulations have validated that the mechanism we proposed is reliable. We believe it may provide a strong support in understanding motion direction detection and other more complex processing in the visual system.","PeriodicalId":269269,"journal":{"name":"2021 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications (ICCIA)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCIA52886.2021.00042","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Motion direction detection is an important part of the visual system. In the past few decades, research on the directional selectivity of motion detection is of great progress. However, they are all concentrated on the cellular level and lack a full understanding in systemic level. To understand motion direction detection, we present a novel motion detection mechanism using the Hassenstein-Reichardt (HR) model. We mimic a subunit of the HR model, propose a local motion direction detective neuron which can detect a specific direction of motion by performing a multiplication operation on one photoreceptor input with a fixed temporal delay and its adjacent photoreceptor input without delay. The proposed neuron can be extended to a two-dimensional vision, for ease of understanding, 8 neurons are implemented in detecting 8 directions of motion. Furthermore, we assume that each photoreceptor in the receptive field has its own local motion direction detective neurons and therefore we can obtain the global motion direction by accumulating the number of activations of all local motion direction detective neurons. The computer simulations have validated that the mechanism we proposed is reliable. We believe it may provide a strong support in understanding motion direction detection and other more complex processing in the visual system.