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Deep adversarial neural decoding

Neurons and Cognition 2017-06-16 v3 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Here, we present a novel approach to solve the problem of reconstructing perceived stimuli from brain responses by combining probabilistic inference with deep learning. Our approach first inverts the linear transformation from latent features to brain responses with maximum a posteriori estimation and then inverts the nonlinear transformation from perceived stimuli to latent features with adversarial training of convolutional neural networks. We test our approach with a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment and show that it can generate state-of-the-art reconstructions of perceived faces from brain activations.

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@article{arxiv.1705.07109,
  title  = {Deep adversarial neural decoding},
  author = {Yağmur Güçlütürk and Umut Güçlü and Katja Seeliger and Sander Bosch and Rob van Lier and Marcel van Gerven},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07109},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Added appendix and updated figures

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