Why do we have all these different sizes? Smaller receptive fields are useful for a sharp high-resolution measurement, while the larger receptive fields measure a blurred picture of the world. We denote the size of the receptive field its scale. We seem to sample the incoming image with our retina at many scales simultaneously.
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(2003). A scale-space model for the retinal sampling. In: Front-End Vision and Multi-Scale Image Analysis. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8840-7_10
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