http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7752
“The system uses complex vision algorithms developed by Yann LeCun at
New York University to run large neural networks for synthetic vision
applications. “
The article links to the following page about the system:
http://www.eng.yale.edu/elab/research/svision/svision.html
According to this page, the system is claimed to "model the way brain
visual processing area V1, V2, V4, IT create invariance to size and
position to identify objects", as well as using "bio-inspired object
categorization".
-Carsten