“…Furthermore, the current small-scale processing is so improved that it forms a useful image processing procedure in its own right, at a speed-up of fifteen times compared to the older, multi-scale algorithm. The present algorithm is both closer in structure to known local circuits in the visual cortex (Grossberg, IV!ingolla, and Ross, 1997;Ross, Grossberg, and Mingolla, 1998) than the previous one, and simpler, containing fewer free parameters. Intuitions about its improved performance can best be appreciated by considering the model of visual ·…”