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beezlebub33 t1_iy9tozq wrote

V1 refers the the mammalian primary visual cortex. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Area_V1

Cells in V1 respond to simple features such as lines of various orientations, certain simple frequencies, colors, etc. the article discusses it more.

The first layer of a CNN does something similar.

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