Adaptive Cooperative Systems (Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing, Communications and Control Series)

This book presents a unified treatment of self-organizing processes, drawing upon examples from physics, spatial statistics, image processing, and brain science. It offers a rigorous theory of cooperative computation as applied to problems in perceptual inferencing. The problems addressed include the integration of multiple sensory information (multiuser function), figure ground segregation, the segmentation of visual images, attention, the self-organization of feature detecting neurons, and short-term synaptic plasticity.