Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (May 2020)

Non-uniqueness Phenomenon of Object Representation in Modeling IT Cortex by Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)

  • Qiulei Dong,
  • Qiulei Dong,
  • Qiulei Dong,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Zhanyi Hu,
  • Zhanyi Hu,
  • Zhanyi Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2020.00035
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14

Abstract

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Recently DCNN (Deep Convolutional Neural Network) has been advocated as a general and promising modeling approach for neural object representation in primate inferotemporal cortex. In this work, we show that some inherent non-uniqueness problem exists in the DCNN-based modeling of image object representations. This non-uniqueness phenomenon reveals to some extent the theoretical limitation of this general modeling approach, and invites due attention to be taken in practice.

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