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Feature detection

The notion of feature detection is used with somewhat different but nevertheless related meanings in different areas that deal with automated interpretation of sensory or measurement data.

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In the area of computer vision, feature detection usually refers to the computation of local image features as intermediate results of making local decisions about the local information contents (image structure) in the image.

v • d • e Neuroethology
Concepts in Neuroethology	Feedforward · Coincidence detector · Umwelt · Instinct · Feature detector · Central pattern generator (CPG) ·NMDA receptor · Lateral inhibition · Fixed action pattern · Krogh's Principle · Hebbian theory · Anti-Hebbian Learning · Sound localization
History of Neuroethology	Theodore Holmes Bullock · Walter Heiligenberg · Niko Tinbergen · Konrad Lorenz · Eric Knudsen · Donald Griffin · Donald Kennedy · Karl von Frisch · Erich von Holst · Jörg-Peter Ewert
Methods in Neuroethology	Whole Cell Patch Clamp
Model Systems in Neuroethology	Animal echolocation · Waggle dance · Electric fish · Vision in toads · Frog hearing and communication · Infrared sensing in snakes