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A COSFIRE filter is automatically configured to be selective for a local contour pattern specified by a single example. The configuration comprises selecting given channels of a bank of Gabor filters and determining certain blur and shift parameters. Gabor filters are, however, not intrinsic to the method and nay other orientation-selective filters can be used. A COSFIRE filter response is computed as the weighted geometric mean of the blurred and shifted responses of the selected Gabor filters. It shares similar properties with some shape-selective neurons in visual cortex, which provided inspiration for this work.