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    Deep learning· 1980

    Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition Unaffected by Shift in Position

    Kunihiko Fukushima (first author) · 1980

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    DOI 10.1007/bf00344251OpenAlex W613766092

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    Why it matters

    Introduced hierarchical visual feature extraction with alternating cell types, anticipating convolutional architectures.

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    The record

    First released
    1980 (from OpenAlex)
    Citations
    5,724 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
    Named by
    both expert lists
    Also relevant to
    Computer vision & multimodal
    Score
    0.365 · computed rank 440 · consensus 0.7, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.3 (1980s · deep-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method

    Editor's notes

    • Readability check: pass: The ancestor of convolutional networks; readable. (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-29)

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