Derived Distance : towards a mathematical theory of visual cortex

We describe a “natural” metric on the space of images motivated by the neuroscience of visual cortex. We propose the notion of a hierarchical derived distance and suggest that it could be applied to the classification of imagery and text and to the analysis of genomics data.

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