Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

1987

@article{BiZ1987,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	vgproject =	{invariance},
	author =	{William Bialek and A. Zee},
	title =	{Statistical Mechanics and Invariant Perception},
	journal =	{Physical Review Letters},
	volume =	{58},
	number =	{7},
	pages =	{741--744},
	month =	{February},
	year =	{1987},
	abstract =	{We consider the problem of discrimination among ensembles
	of images generated by distortions of a prototype and the addition of
	noise. As the noise level is increased the discrimination task becomes
	qualitatively more difficult in that optimal discrimination requires
	the computation of increasingly longer-ranged correlations or the
	solution of increasingly difficult optimization problems. These results
	suggest the use of such image ensembles in probing the computational
	abilities of the human visual system, and possible theoretical
	implications are discussed.},
}