Reservoir Computing based Neural Image Filters

Abstract

Clean images are an important requirement for machine vision systems to recognize visual features correctly. However, the environment, optics, electronics of the physical imaging systems can introduce extreme distortions and noise in the acquired images. In this work, we explore the use of reservoir computing, a dynamical neural network model inspired from biological systems, in creating dynamic image filtering systems that extracts signal from noise using inverse modeling. We discuss the possibility of implementing these networks in hardware close to the sensors.

5 pages, 4 figures, To appear in Conference Proceedings of The 44th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2018): Special Session on Machine Vision, Control and Navigation