Notes on the Shannon Entropy of the Neural Response
Author(s) • • •
Shakhnarovich, Greg
Bouvrie, Jake
Rosasco, Lorenzo
Smale, Steve
Advisor(s)
Tomaso Poggio
Date Issued
October 9, 2009
Series/Report no.
CBCL-281
MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-049
Abstract
In these notes we focus on the concept of Shannon entropy in an attempt to provide a systematic way of assessing the discrimination properties of the neural response, and quantifying the role played by the number of layers and the number of templates.
Subjects
computer vision
artificial intelligence
neuroscience
computation
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