Editorial: Integrating Visual System Mechanisms, Computational Models and Algorithms/Technologies

摘要

The Research Topic on “Integrating Visual System Mechanisms, Computational Models andAlgorithms/Technologies” collects novel studies that display a strong synergy between threeentities: (1) the visual system from its various angles including physiological, psychophysical, andperceptual, (2) computational models whether descriptive or predictive, and (3) vision inspiredalgorithms and applications. The interaction between modeling and the various aspects of thevisual system is expressed in the reciprocal contributions between the two. On one hand, visualmechanisms and neuronal units provide inspiration and basis for modeling approaches andtheir computational units within, and on the other hand, modeling provides novel insights andnew understandings of the visual system mechanisms and its associated behaviors. Furthermore,computational models, and the underlying visual mechanisms, provide a basis for developingpractical algorithms to perform image processing and image understanding.