Term ID: T1866

Feature Hierarchy

/feature-hierarchy/
The organization of visual processing from simple features like edges and lines to complex objects and scenes, with increasingly sophisticated feature detectors at higher levels.
Example: Visual processing progressing from edge detection in early visual areas to object recognition in higher cortical regions, with each level building on previous feature analysis.

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Reference: Riesenhuber & Poggio (1999)