MAGMA - Modelling And understandinG Motion Anticipation in the retina

MAGMA is a French-Chilean research group led by Bruno Cessac, from the BIOVISION team of Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, in Inria France, and María José Escobar, from Federico Santa María Technical University.

They work on the modeling and understanding of movement anticipation in the retina and study the mechanisms underlying the anticipatory response and predictive encoding observed in the mammalian retina. They seek to understand how the visual system accumulates information and, furthermore, to solve problems inherent to neural computing, its dynamics and implementations for simulations.

These advances and new insights could be used to compensate for visual impairment, with technology that learns how the visual channel interprets visual stimuli as neural signals. It could even be extended to new image and video processing algorithms and the navigation of autonomous robots.

This team also count with the participation of University of Bio Bio and University of Valparaíso researchers.