Chapter 3

Bio-Inspired Sensory Systems · 10 exercises

Problem 1

Differentiate between passive and active sensors.

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Problem 3

How are chemo-reception and photo-reception similar?

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Problem 7

What are the three information domains in which vision systems extract environmental information?

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Problem 9

Give some examples of visual scanning systems in the animal kingdom. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a system?

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Problem 14

Name the five major cell types (layers) in the retina. Which three are connected to the triad synapse?

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Problem 15

Give the three primary vision information channels in primate vision.

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Problem 16

Give the three primary vision information channels in primate vision.

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Problem 18

What is the photoreceptor mosaic, and how is that like an artistic mosaic?

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Problem 19

What is the difference between LoG and DoG filters?

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Problem 23

When contemplating a new communication encoding scheme, it is very important to choose an orthogonal basis. But a typical biological set of basis functions are not mutually orthogonal. What is the implication?

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