Before revision: We introduce foveated perceptual systems, inspired by human biological systems, and examine the impact that this foveation stage has on the nature and robustness of subsequently learned visual representation.
After revision: The goal of this work is to characterize the representational impact that foveation operations have for machine vision systems, inspired by human biological systems, and examine the impact that this foveation stage has on the nature and robustness of subsequently learned visual representation.