om,

To anyone interested:

I've been hacking on my image processor and have optomized the runtime
down to 12-25% of what it was previously depending on which function you
need. (it is super-fast for 32-bit base images).

Also, I have added code for the little known, seldom documented
Koniocellular pathway.

I am very satisfied with this current version and I am ready to move on
to the next phase.

I reciently learned how to actually use the periodicals database at my
university library (I'm at a remote site with no library).

What I really need is, as concicely as possible the following:

-- The most current and complete bordman's map of cortical regions.

-- The best theories/observations of the connection-patterns between
said bordman's areas...

IE: "region V1 has a subcortical pathway to V2, V3 etc.."

In the spirit of open AI development for the good of all, I hereby
present my first code release.

Attached is the source code of my image processor class that attempts to
duplicate the center-surround processing of the human retina.

It can be loaded into a squeak immage. ( www.squeak.org ) and run on
arbitrary immages you file-in using the file viewer.

I found the solution to making it work was to iterate over several
magnification scales.

This approach is supported by the anatomical observation that the three
groups of layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus probably represent
three levels of neural convergance.

To make this code work, use "viewer" to create a script for your input
immage and input the following code. ( the stuff between the hash marks.)

To get profiling information, open a "transcript" window.

This code will run in approximately 1 minute on a medium sized input
immage on a dual 1.2 ghz Athlon.

This code might crash on smaller input images, if so, try reducing the
parameter to "iterationsDo: "

######################

script1

     | imageProc delta t1 t2 t3 t4 |
     imageProc _ ImageProcessor new.

t1 _ Time millisecondsToRun:
     [ imageProc setSource: (self getGraphic). ].

t2 _ Time millisecondsToRun: [
     imageProc preProcessBrightness.
     delta _ SketchMorph new.
].

"delta form: (imageProc centerSurroundAlt ).
"
t3 _ Time millisecondsToRun: [
imageProc iterationsDo: 7.
].

t4 _ Time millisecondsToRun: [
delta form: (imageProc generateGreyForm).
].

delta openInWorld.

Transcript show: t1;
     show: ' ';
     show:  t2;
     show: ' ';
     show:  t3;
     show: ' ';
     show: t4;
         cr.

######################

   ----------

'From Squeak3.6 of ''6 October 2003'' [latest update: #5429] on 19 March 2004 at
11:58:12 pm'!
Object subclass: #ImageProcessor
	 instanceVariableNames: 'theForm theColorArray brightnessArray tempArray width
height scale factor '
	 classVariableNames: ''
	 poolDictionaries: ''
	 category: 'AI-Cybernetic'!

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/14/2004 23:38'!
centerSurround
	 | formwidth |
	 formwidth _ theForm width.
	 1
		 to: theForm height - 2
		 do: [:i |
				 | itfw |
				 itfw _ i * formwidth.
				 1 to: formwidth - 2 do: [:j |
					 | a b center jip jim |
					 jim _ j + itfw.
					 center _ jim + 1.
					 jip _ center + 1.
					 a _ (brightnessArray at: center - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip)
								 + (brightnessArray at: center + formwidth).
					 b _ (brightnessArray at: jim - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim + formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip + formwidth).
					 a _ a * 2 + b / 12 .
					 a _ (brightnessArray at: center) - a.
					 tempArray at: center put: ((tempArray at: center)
							 + a ) ]].
	 ^ nil.! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 12/5/2003 02:48'!
centerSurroundAlt
	 | outform formwidth |
	 formwidth _ theForm width.
	 outform _ Form extent: formwidth - 2 / 2 @ (theForm height - 3 / 2) depth: 32.
	 1
		 to: outform height
		 do: [:i | 1
				 to: outform width
				 do: [:j |
					 | center surround place |
					 place _ j * 2 + (i * 2 * formwidth).
					 center _ (brightnessArray at: place)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + formwidth + 1) / 4.
					 surround _ (brightnessArray at: place - formwidth - 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place - formwidth + 2)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + (2 * formwidth) - 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + (2 * formwidth) + 2) / 2.
					 surround _ surround
								 + (brightnessArray at: place - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place - formwidth + 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place - 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + 3)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + formwidth - 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + formwidth + 3)
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + (2 * formwidth))
								 + (brightnessArray at: place + (2 * formwidth) + 1) / 10.
					 center _ surround - center * 16.
					 center _ center abs.
					 outform
						 colorAt: j @ i
						 put: (Color gray: center)]].
	 ^ outform! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/19/2004 22:58'!
centerSurroundScaled
	 1
		 to: height - 2
		 do: [:i |
				 | itw |
				 itw _ i * width.
				 1 to: width - 2 do: [:j |
					 | a b center jip jim |
					 jim _ j + itw.
					 center _ jim + 1.
					 jip _ center + 1.
					 a _ (brightnessArray at: center - width)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip)
								 + (brightnessArray at: center + width).
					 b _ (brightnessArray at: jim - width)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip - width)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim + width)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip + width).
					 a _ a * 2 + b / 12 .
					 a _ (brightnessArray at: center) - a / factor .

					 self magnifyAndPrint: a toX: j+1 Y: i+1    ]].
	 ^ nil.! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/19/2004 23:08'!
collapseArray
	 | newArray oldwidth |
	 scale _ scale bitShift: 1.
	 factor _ factor + 1.
	 oldwidth _ width.
	 width _ width bitShift: -1.
	 height _ height bitShift: -1.
	 newArray _ Array new: height * width.
	 0
		 to: height - 1
		 do: [:i |
			 | iDelta iDeltaOne |
			 iDelta _ i * 2.
			 iDeltaOne _ iDelta + 1 * oldwidth.
			 iDelta _ iDelta * oldwidth.
			 1
				 to: width
				 do: [:j |
					 | x tj |
					 tj _ j - 1 * 2 + 1.
					 x _ (brightnessArray at: tj + iDelta)
								 + (brightnessArray at: tj + iDelta + 1)
								 + (brightnessArray at: tj + iDeltaOne)
								 + (brightnessArray at: tj + iDeltaOne + 1).
					 x _ x / 4.
					 newArray at: j + (i * width) put: x]].
	 brightnessArray _ newArray! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/19/2004 23:08'!
colorblindForm
	 | outform formwidth |
	 formwidth _ theForm width.
	 outform _ Form extent: formwidth @ theForm height depth: 16.
	 1
		 to: theForm height
		 do: [:i | 1
				 to: theForm width
				 do: [:j |
					 | borkedColor yellow |
					 borkedColor _ theColorArray at: i - 1 * theForm width + j.
					 yellow _ borkedColor red + borkedColor green / 2.
					 borkedColor _ Color
								 r: yellow
								 g: yellow
								 b: borkedColor blue.
					 outform colorAt: j @ i put: borkedColor]].
	 ^ outform! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 1/25/2004 13:26'!
enhanceTexture
	 | outform formwidth |
	 formwidth _ theForm width.
	 outform _ Form extent: formwidth - 2 @ (theForm height - 2) depth: 16.
	 1
		 to: outform height
		 do: [:i | 1
				 to: outform width
				 do: [:j |
					 | a b center jip jim |
					 jim _ j + (i * formwidth).
					 center _ jim + 1.
					 jip _ center + 1.
					 a _ (brightnessArray at: center - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip)
								 + (brightnessArray at: center + formwidth).
					 b _ (brightnessArray at: jim - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip - formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jim + formwidth)
								 + (brightnessArray at: jip + formwidth).
					 a _ a * 2 + b / 12.
					 b _ 2.0 * (brightnessArray at: center).
					 a _ b - a. "* 3  + 0.5 ."

					 a < 0.0 ifTrue: [ a _ 0.0 ].
					 a > 1.0 ifTrue: [ a _ 1.0 ].
					 outform
						 colorAt: j @ i
						 put: (Color gray: a)]].
	 ^ outform! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/15/2004 01:46'!
generateGreyForm
	 | outform |
	 outform _ Form extent: (theForm width) @ (theForm height) depth: 32.
	 1
		 to: theForm height
		 do: [:i | 1
				 to: theForm width
				 do: [:j |  | foo |
						 foo _ tempArray at: i - 1 * theForm width + j.
						 foo > 1.0 ifTrue: [ foo _ 1.0 ].
						 foo < 0.0 ifTrue: [ foo _ 0.0 ].
						 outform colorAt: j @ i
						 put: (Color gray: foo)]].
	 ^ outform! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/15/2004 12:36'!
iterationsDo: count

count < 0 ifTrue: [self halt.  "usage error" ].
self centerSurround.

2 to: count do: [:i |
	 self collapseArray.
	 self centerSurroundScaled.
	 ]. ! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/15/2004 01:34'!
magnifyAndPrint: value toX: x Y: y
	 | lineBase columnBase |
	 columnBase _ (x-1) * scale + 1 .
	 lineBase _ (y-1) * scale * theForm width.
	 0
		 to: (scale -1 )
		 do: [:i |
			 | lineAdjust |
			 lineAdjust _ lineBase + (i * theForm width).
			 0
				 to: (scale -1 )
				 do: [:j | tempArray at: (lineAdjust + columnBase + j) put: value
							 + (tempArray at: lineAdjust + columnBase + j)]]! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/19/2004 22:57'!
preProcessBrightness
	 scale _ 1.
	 factor _ 0.
	 brightnessArray _ Array new: theColorArray size.
	 tempArray _ Array new: theColorArray size.
	 1
		 to: theColorArray size
		 do: [:i | brightnessArray at: i put: (theColorArray at: i) brightness.
				 tempArray at: i put: 0.5 ].
	 ^ brightnessArray! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/15/2004 02:00'!
scale
	 ^ scale. ! !

!ImageProcessor methodsFor: 'as yet unclassified' stamp: 'ATG 3/14/2004 10:57'!
setSource: aForm
	 theForm _ aForm.
	 height _ aForm height.
	 width _ aForm width.
	 theColorArray _ ColorArray new: height * width.
	 1
		 to: height
		 do: [:i | 1
				 to: width
				 do: [:j | theColorArray
						 at: (i - 1) * width + j
						 put: (theForm colorAt: j @ i)]]! !


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om

On this occasion of the 26th aniversary of my living in my parent's
house, ( =(  ) I want to share some of my latest underinformed thinking
about AI with a focus on NLP which seems to be the hot topic of the day.

The dogma with NLP, as with many other types of AI seems to be that "if
we add enough rules it will work." or, more subtly, "If we simulate what
we beleive to be the top-level algorithm of the brain well enough it
will work". The first approach and even the second is doomed to failure.

The origin of this dogma is found in a variation of the same dualistic
thinking behind a vast array of human expression. It can be found
everywhere from the religeous beleif in a soul, to the uploader's
equally fanciful beleif that the mind can be seperated from body through
technology. In this case dualism means that there is a part of the brain
called the "higher functions" located exclusively in the cerebral cortex
which are entirely seprable from the rest of the brain which are
designated as "lower functions".

What is overlooked is that the human expressions that our NLP systems
have the most trouble dealing with are, infact, "telemetry data" about
the state of these so-called lower functions. Only a being which has an
internal state roughly analogous to what we call "happiness" can
understand the english sentance "I am happy." in any meaningful way.

Therefore the projects that are most likley to achieve some level of NLP
are those which place an emphasis on the brain's varrious subsystems
such as is required to produce androids.


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Fascinating.

Have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year, Alan.

Sincerely,

Darryl



Alan Grimes <alangrimes@...> wrote:
om,

I've been playing around with an immage pre-processor that is intended
to mimic the center-surround pre-processing of the human eye...

My first attempt worked on a 3x3 matrix adding the brightness of the
pixels multiplied by the factors as follows:

1/12  1/6  1/12
1/6    -1  1/6
1/12  1/6  1/12

This algorithm had the following problems:

1. it's range was too small, features in the source immage that change
over several pixels were not detected or detected poorly.

2. multiplying the result or making the result proportional to total
brightess made the algorithm too sensitive to subtle features but not
sensitive to larger ones....

Changing the grid to:

0   0   1/6  0   0
0  1/12  0  1/12 0
1/6  0   -1   0  1/6
0  1/12  0  1/12 0
0   0   1/6  0   0

improved matters but tends to blur the immage so that smaller details
are lost and complex edges are blurred...

Has anyone here worked on this kind of problem before? do you have any
suggestions?

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om,

I've been playing around with an immage pre-processor that is intended
to mimic the center-surround pre-processing of the human eye...

My first attempt worked on a 3x3 matrix adding the brightness of the
pixels multiplied by the factors as follows:

  1/12  1/6  1/12
  1/6    -1  1/6
  1/12  1/6  1/12

This algorithm had the following problems:

1. it's range was too small, features in the source immage that change
over several pixels were not detected or detected poorly.

2. multiplying the result or making the result proportional to total
brightess made the algorithm too sensitive to subtle features but not
sensitive to larger ones....

Changing the grid to:

  0   0   1/6  0   0
  0  1/12  0  1/12 0
1/6  0   -1   0  1/6
  0  1/12  0  1/12 0
  0   0   1/6  0   0

improved matters but tends to blur the immage so that smaller details
are lost and complex edges are blurred...

Has anyone here worked on this kind of problem before? do you have any
suggestions?

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Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre
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Hello, somebody put me on the AI meetup list. While I generally don't
like being slammed, the subject is very interesting to me. I would very
much like to help advance the state of thinking about artificial
intelligence and getting people togeather to talk about it is a good way
to start.

I don't know who started this meetup but it seems to be recurring on a
regular basis and I would like to take advantage of it. I ask everyone
who receives this to consider signing up. =)

My appologies if you received this more than once....

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“And lastly, before leaving the village, I drank one cup alone. I was
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effect, I started to sing. What poured out of my mouth was a biblical
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Some good things about Crick & Koch’s “Framework for consciousness.”
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Science and Consciousness Review has just published a summary and four
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Most SCR commentaries in this series have been critical. I understand the
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more than a decade. In my view, Crick and Koch give us a progress report:
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Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence
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The 10 point framework and the altogether too hard basket
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The large footprints of the Crick/Koch duo at the frontier of knowledge can
be a little daunting, which is why I was concerned at the very first
paragraph of “A Framework for Consciousness” (1). It says that qualia are
too hard and ‘it appears fruitless to approach them head on’. Qualia are
then tacitly assumed emergent from the framework presented. I know the work
is entitled ‘A’ framework, not ‘The’ framework, but from Crick and Koch it
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A computer-based model of Crick and Koch’s Framework for Consciousness
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"Crick and Koch explain that a framework must not be confused with a set of
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which to address the problems of consciousness. It’s intended to guide
research. A good framework should fit within current scientific knowledge
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The Missing Self, or: 10 Ways How To Be A Zombie
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The article by Crick and Koch is undoubtedly a first: for Nature to cave in
so spectacularly to the so-called ‘Framework’ proffered to them in the name
of neuroscience. But unfortunately the Framework gets nowhere fast, since it
has no real teeth to get at the underlying phenomenon of consciousness
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Crick and Koch: A framework with many unknowns
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The paper by Crick and Koch (featured in the February 2003 issue of Nature
Neuroscience) presents their updated perspective on the brain in relation to
consciousness. It may let us gauge what we do not yet know, as much as
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Crick & Koch's: A new "Framework for Consciousness"
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It is not often that a top scientific journal features a lead article on
consciousness, and we at SCR rejoice to see Francis Crick and Christof
Koch’s commentary “A Framework for Consciousness,” featured in the February
2003 issue of Nature Neuroscience. In this article, Pradeep Mutalik reviews
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There are some striking similarities between unconscious states like
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consciousness that affects epileptics. These similarities stands in
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Consciousness Science 2002: past, present and future
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Touching what is out there
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Pure Consciousness in Meditation and the Self
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