The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion

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Autores principales: Edelson, Charles J., Smith, Paul, Setayeshgar, Sima, Bialek, William, van Steveninck, Rob R. de Ruyter
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Publicado: 2024
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author Edelson, Charles J.
Smith, Paul
Setayeshgar, Sima
Bialek, William
van Steveninck, Rob R. de Ruyter
author_facet Edelson, Charles J.
Smith, Paul
Setayeshgar, Sima
Bialek, William
van Steveninck, Rob R. de Ruyter
contents To make efficient use of limited physical resources, the brain must match its coding and computational strategies to the statistical structure of input signals. An attractive testing ground for these principles is the problem of motion estimation in the fly visual system: we understand the optics of the compound eye, have a quantitative description of input signals and noise from the retina, and can record from output neurons that encode estimates of different velocity components. Furthermore, recent work provides a nearly complete wiring diagram of the intervening circuitry. What is missing is a characterization of the visual signals and motions that flies encounter in a natural context. We attack this directly with the development of a specialized camera that matches the high temporal resolution, optical properties, and spectral sensitivity of the fly's eye; inertial motion sensors provide ground truth about rotations and translations through the world. We describe the design, construction, and performance characteristics of this FlEye camera. To illustrate the opportunities created by this instrument we use data on movies and motion to construct optimal local motion estimators that can be compared with the responses of the fly's motion sensitive neurons.
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spellingShingle The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion
Edelson, Charles J.
Smith, Paul
Setayeshgar, Sima
Bialek, William
van Steveninck, Rob R. de Ruyter
Neurons and Cognition
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
To make efficient use of limited physical resources, the brain must match its coding and computational strategies to the statistical structure of input signals. An attractive testing ground for these principles is the problem of motion estimation in the fly visual system: we understand the optics of the compound eye, have a quantitative description of input signals and noise from the retina, and can record from output neurons that encode estimates of different velocity components. Furthermore, recent work provides a nearly complete wiring diagram of the intervening circuitry. What is missing is a characterization of the visual signals and motions that flies encounter in a natural context. We attack this directly with the development of a specialized camera that matches the high temporal resolution, optical properties, and spectral sensitivity of the fly's eye; inertial motion sensors provide ground truth about rotations and translations through the world. We describe the design, construction, and performance characteristics of this FlEye camera. To illustrate the opportunities created by this instrument we use data on movies and motion to construct optimal local motion estimators that can be compared with the responses of the fly's motion sensitive neurons.
title The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion
topic Neurons and Cognition
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21081