Simulating a Primary Visual Cortex at the Front of CNNs Improves Robustness to Image Perturbations
Joel Dapello, Tiago Marques, Martin Schrimpf, Franziska Geiger, David Cox, James J. DiCarlo
A fixed-weight, biologically parameterised V1 front-end gives standard image classifiers adversarial and corruption robustness at no extra training cost; its simulated neuronal noise drives most of the adversarial gain.
bioRxiv · Jun 16, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience✦ In-depth digest