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ReviewAnnual review of vision science2024

Optimization in Visual Motion Estimation.

Damon A Clark, James E Fitzgerald

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Review in Annual review of vision science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Fly navigational responses exploit plume-specific odor motion and gradient cues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Broken time-reversal symmetry in visual motion detection.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Broken time reversal symmetry in visual motion detection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Damon A ClarkDepartment of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; email: damon.clark@yale.edu.
James E FitzgeraldJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

Funding

Integrating visual counterevidence to detect self-motion in a small visual circuitR01EY026555 · NEI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2016 to 2025
$4.0M
Characterizing odor motion detection in fliesRF1NS132840 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR, EMONET, THIERRY · 2023 to 2023
$1.9M
Dissecting the roles of timing in a canonical neural computationRF1NS121773 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2021 to 2021
$1.2M
Dissecting the roles of timing in a canonical neural computationR01NS121773 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARK, DAMON ALISTAIR · 2024 to 2025
$684k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY026555NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS121773NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS121773NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS132840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sighted animals use visual signals to discern directional motion in their environment. Motion is not directly detected by visual neurons, and it must instead be computed from light signals that vary over space and time. This makes visual motion estimation a near universal neural computation, and decades of research have revealed much about the algorithms and mechanisms that generate directional signals. The idea that sensory systems are optimized for performance in natural environments has deeply impacted this research. In this article, we review the many ways that optimization has been used to quantitatively model visual motion estimation and reveal its underlying principles. We emphasize that no single optimization theory has dominated the literature. Instead, researchers have adeptly incorporated different computational demands and biological constraints that are pertinent to the specific brain system and animal model under study. The successes and failures of the resulting optimization models have thereby provided insights into how computational demands and biological constraints together shape neural computation.

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Motion PerceptionAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansModels, NeurologicalVisual PathwaysBayes optimalityefficient codingmotion estimationoptimizationtask optimization

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PMID38663426
PMCPMC11998607

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