This page is intended to be of help to people who are interested in knowing more about research conducted according to the general framework given in "On Intelligence". I have been working with Jeff for over a year now and I think I have been quite successful in assimmilating, formalizing and in some cases extending the ideas described in the book.
Given the broader general goal and the assumptions, I now concentrate on the visual system trying to figure out how the general principles play out in the visual system to achieve the properties that human visual systems demonstrate. In particular, my current focus is on what is known as the Invariance Problem - how our visual system is able to recognize objects despite the different images that project on the retina. I think I have made good progress in this research. The rest of this report is all about the Invariance Problem and how it can be solved.
The first section of this report describes the invariance problem and various approaches researchers have taken towards solving it. If you are familiar with this research, you can skip ahead to the System Simulation section which is related to my work. In this section I briefly describe the theory behind my work and then describe the details of a system that I have built based on the theory. If you are all impatient to get your hands on the simulation source code, you can go directly to that aswell.