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Visual reconstruction algorithms are an interpretive tool that map brain activity to pixels. Past reconstruction algorithms employed brute-force search through a massive library to select candidate images that, when passed through an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-03 Reese Kneeland , Jordyn Ojeda , Ghislain St-Yves , Thomas Naselaris

Decoding visual stimuli from neural responses recorded by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) presents an intriguing intersection between cognitive neuroscience and machine learning, promising advancements in understanding human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jingyuan Sun , Mingxiao Li , Zijiao Chen , Yunhao Zhang , Shaonan Wang , Marie-Francine Moens

Neuroscience studies have revealed that the brain encodes visual content and embeds information in neural activity. Recently, deep learning techniques have facilitated attempts to address visual reconstructions by mapping brain activity to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Pei-Chun Chang , Yan-Yu Tien , Chia-Lin Chen , Li-Fen Chen , Yong-Sheng Chen , Hui-Ling Chan

In neuroscience, all kinds of computation models were designed to answer the open question of how sensory stimuli are encoded by neurons and conversely, how sensory stimuli can be decoded from neuronal activities. Especially, functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Kai Qiao , Chi Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Jian Chen , Lei Zeng , Li Tong

In this paper we propose a deep learning approach for segmenting sub-cortical structures of the human brain in Magnetic Resonance (MR) image data. We draw inspiration from a state-of-the-art Fully-Convolutional Neural Network (F-CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-08 Mahsa Shakeri , Stavros Tsogkas , Enzo Ferrante , Sarah Lippe , Samuel Kadoury , Nikos Paragios , Iasonas Kokkinos

In the visual decoding domain, visually reconstructing presented images given the corresponding human brain activity monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is difficult, especially when reconstructing viewed natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Linyuan Wang , Chi Zhang , Li Tong , Bin Yan

This paper presents a new variational inference framework for image restoration and a convolutional neural network (CNN) structure that can solve the restoration problems described by the proposed framework. Earlier CNN-based image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

In the past few years, significant advancements were made in reconstruction of observed natural images from fMRI brain recordings using deep-learning tools. Here, for the first time, we show that dense 3D depth maps of observed 2D natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guy Gaziv , Michal Irani

AI-based neural decoding reconstructs visual perception by leveraging generative models to map brain activity, measured through functional MRI (fMRI), into latent hierarchical representations. Traditionally, ridge linear models transform…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Lorenzo Veronese , Andrea Moglia , Luca Mainardi , Pietro Cerveri

Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) has been widely used for image recognition with great success. However, there are a number of limitations of the current CNN based image recognition paradigm. First, the receptive field of CNN is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Dong-Qing Zhang

Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. This review traces the field's evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yukiyasu Kamitani , Misato Tanaka , Ken Shirakawa

Despite the rapid advances in Brain-computer Interfacing (BCI) and continuous effort to improve the accuracy of brain decoding systems, the urge for the systems to reconstruct the experiences of the users has been widely acknowledged. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Pouya Ghaemmaghami

Recent advances in brain-vision decoding have driven significant progress, reconstructing with high fidelity perceived visual stimuli from neural activity, e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in the human visual cortex. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Le Xu , Qi Zhang , Qixian Zhang , Hongyun Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Cairong Zhao

Reconstructing observed images from fMRI brain recordings is challenging. Unfortunately, acquiring sufficient "labeled" pairs of {Image, fMRI} (i.e., images with their corresponding fMRI responses) to span the huge space of natural images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Roman Beliy , Guy Gaziv , Assaf Hoogi , Francesca Strappini , Tal Golan , Michal Irani

Semantic segmentation is an established while rapidly evolving field in medical imaging. In this paper we focus on the segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) into cerebral structures using convolutional neural networks (CNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Pierre-Antoine Ganaye , Michaël Sdika , Hugues Benoit-Cattin

Deep neural networks have been developed drawing inspiration from the brain visual pathway, implementing an end-to-end approach: from image data to video object classes. However building an fMRI decoder with the typical structure of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-10 Michele Svanera , Sergio Benini , Gal Raz , Talma Hendler , Rainer Goebel , Giancarlo Valente

Visual illusions teach us that what we see is not always what it is represented in the physical world. Its special nature make them a fascinating tool to test and validate any new vision model proposed. In general, current vision models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Alexander Gomez-Villa , Adrián Martín , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Marcelo Bertalmío

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved great success in natural image saliency prediction. The primary goal of this study is to investigate the performance of saliency prediction in CNN and classic models with psychophysical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-02 Qiang Li

This literature review will discuss the use of deep learning methods for image reconstruction using fMRI data. More specifically, the quality of image reconstruction will be determined by the choice in decoding and reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Madison Van Horn

Representations learned by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exhibit a remarkable resemblance to information processing patterns observed in the primate visual system on large neuroimaging datasets collected under diverse, naturalistic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-16 Dora Gozukara , Nasir Ahmad , Katja Seeliger , Djamari Oetringer , Linda Geerligs