A new perspective on border completion in visual cortex as bicycle rear wheel geodesics paths via sub-Riemannian Hamiltonian formalism

2023/03/31 by R. Fioresi, Fioresi, R., A. Marraffa +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.00084

openalex publication_date 2023/03/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present a review of known models and a new simple mathematical modelling for border completion in the visual cortex V1 highlighting the striking analogies with bicycle rear wheel motions in the plane.

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