Simoncelli Eero P
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2003 Apr;13(2):144-9. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(03)00047-3.
It is widely believed that visual systems are optimized for the visual properties of the environment inhabited by the organism. A specific instance of this principle is known as the Efficient Coding Hypothesis, which holds that the purpose of early visual processing is to produce an efficient representation of the incoming visual signal. The theory provides a quantitative link between the statistical properties of the world and the structure of the visual system. As such, specific instances of this theory have been tested experimentally, and have been used to motivate and constrain models for early visual processing.
人们普遍认为，视觉系统是针对生物体所栖息环境的视觉特性进行优化的。这一原理的一个具体实例被称为高效编码假说，该假说认为早期视觉处理的目的是对传入的视觉信号进行高效表征。该理论在世界的统计特性与视觉系统的结构之间建立了定量联系。因此，这一理论的具体实例已通过实验进行了检验，并被用于推动和约束早期视觉处理模型。
