Bioinspired CNNs for border completion in occluded images
arXiv cs.CV / 3/12/2026
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Key Points
- The authors design BorderNet, a CNN whose filters are inspired by border-completion mechanisms in the visual cortex to improve robustness to occlusions.
- They evaluate BorderNet on occluded MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, and EMNIST using stripe and grid occlusions, reporting improved performance over baselines with results that vary by occlusion severity and dataset.
- The study demonstrates how neuroscience-inspired filter design can enhance occluded-object recognition in CNNs, suggesting potential for more robust vision systems.
- This is an arXiv preprint (v1) announced as a new contribution in the field.
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