“…In the following we discuss the components of our model with reference to related work. Our feature detection approach is different from most of the related work on online learning for object recognition (Garcia, Oliveira, Grupen, Wheeler, & Fagg 2000;Steels & Kaplan 2001;Roy & Pentland 2002;Arsenio 2004;Bekel, Bax, Heidemann, & Ritter 2004), because the representation is not based on a dimension reduction of the high-dimensional visual input. Due to the receptive-field-based topographical representation, we obtain multiple shape feature-map representations with a resulting dimensionality that is of the same order as the visual input.…”