The Skeye Project

Skeye (say “sky”) is software that simulates to some degree the biological model of the brain’s visual memory sketched in this book. (See chapters 7, 13 and 14.)

It was fascinating to learn that the machinery of the hypothetical brain model has been embodied in a computer -- and that indeed, this nascent “brain” actually works.

The creators of the Skeye project are Helio Perroni Filho and Alberto Ferreira de Souza of UFES in Vitória, Brazil. Their paper on this work, A Biologically-Based Image Template-Matching Framework was presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications in 2012.

An extended and more fully illustrated version, entitled On Multichannel Neurons, with An Application to Template Search was published in the Journal of Network and Innovative Computing in the summer of 2014.

Following are two excerpts from the paper:

“Skeye is a platform for the study of neural computation models, particularly in relation to machine vision. Currently in its early stages of development, it is mainly inspired by the multichannel neuron model and related theories proposed by John Harris..."

"...the appeal of the multichannel neuron is how it brings together a number of research results into a surprisingly feasible theory of how the brain works.”