Revisiting Algorithmic Lateral Inhibition and Accumulative Computation

Certainly, one of the prominent ideas of Professor Mira was that it is absolutely mandatory to specify the mechanisms and/or processes underlying each task and inference mentioned in an architecture in order to make operational that architecture. The conjecture of the last fifteen years of joint research of Professor Mira and our team at University of Castilla-La Mancha has been that any bottom-up organization may be made operational using two biologically inspired methods called "algorithmic lateral inhibition", a generalization of lateral inhibition anatomical circuits, and "accumulative computation", a working memory related to the temporal evolution of the membrane potential. This paper is dedicated to the computational formulations of both methods, which have led to quite efficient solutions of problems related to motion-based computer vision.

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