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Our approach begins by mimicking the photoreceptor cone cells to simulate the initial input processing followed by a learnable dendritic neuron model to replicate ganglion cells that integrate outputs from bipolar and horizontal cell simulations. To handle multi-channel integration, we utilize a nonlearnable dendritic neuron model to simulate the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which consolidates outputs across color channels, an essential function in biological multi-channel processing. Cross-validation experiments show that AVS demonstrates strong generalization across varied object\u2013background configurations, achieving accuracy where traditional models like EfN-B0, ResNet50, and ConvNeXt typically fall short. Additionally, our results across different training-to-testing data ratios reveal that AVS maintains over 96% test accuracy even with limited training data, underscoring its robustness in low-data scenarios. This demonstrates the practical advantage of the AVS model in applications where large-scale annotated datasets are unavailable or expensive to curate. 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