Tutorial Virtual Retina

Virtual Retina - tutorialAdrien WohrerMay 14, 2008This tutorial provides an introduction to the Virtual Retina software. Thegoal of this document is not to provide explanations for the underlying retinalmodel;thesecanbefoundintherelatedarticle[1],availableathttps://hal.inria.fr/inria-00160716/en/. Itratherdescribesthearchitectureofthepackage, thecommandlines to be used, and how to con gure an xml denition le for the program.Contents1 General architecture of the package 21.1 Goals, scope of use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.4 Now what’s in there? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The executables 42.1 The Retina executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 The TestGanglionCell executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 The ReconstructRetina executable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.4 Other executables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Writing a retina denition le in xml 83.1 General architecture of a le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.2 Log-polar scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.3 Outer Plexiform Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.3.1 Linear Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103.3.2 Undershoot version . . . . . . . . ...