Visual learning with cellular neural networks

Reinforcement learning is a powerful tool for teaching robotic agents to perform tasks in real environments. Visual information provided by a camera could be a cheap and rich source of information about an agent´s surroundings, if this information were represented in a compact and generalizable form. We turn to cellular neural networks as the means of transforming visual input to a representation suitable for reinforcement learning. We investigate a CNN-based image processing algorithm and describe a method for efficiently computing CNNs using the DirectX 10 API.