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Discriminative learning based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) aims to perform image restoration by learning from training examples of noisy-clean image pairs. It has become the go-to methodology for tackling image restoration and…

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Seeing is believing, however, the underlying mechanism of how human visual perceptions are intertwined with our cognitions is still a mystery. Thanks to the recent advances in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence, we have been able…

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In this work we present DREAM, an fMRI-to-image method for reconstructing viewed images from brain activities, grounded on fundamental knowledge of the human visual system. We craft reverse pathways that emulate the hierarchical and…

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Image reconstruction and captioning from brain activity evoked by visual stimuli allow researchers to further understand the connection between the human brain and the visual perception system. While deep generative models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Image denoising techniques are essential to reducing noise levels and enhancing diagnosis reliability in low-dose computed tomography (CT). Machine learning based denoising methods have shown great potential in removing the complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Dufan Wu , Kyungsang Kim , Georges El Fakhri , Quanzheng Li

During the image acquisition process, noise is usually added to the data mainly due to physical limitations of the acquisition sensor, and also regarding imprecisions during the data transmission and manipulation. In that sense, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Rafael G. Pires , Daniel F. S. Santos , Marcos C. S. Santana , Claudio F. G. Santos , Joao P. Papa

Single image super-resolution (SR) via deep learning has recently gained significant attention in the literature. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are typically learned to represent the mapping between low-resolution (LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Hojjat S. Mousavi , Tiantong Guo , Vishal Monga

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a non-invasive technique for studying brain activity. During an fMRI session, the subject executes a set of tasks (task-related fMRI study) or no tasks (resting-state fMRI), and a sequence of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Christos Theodoropoulos , Christos Chatzichristos , Sabine Van Huffel

Recently, visual encoding based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have realized many achievements with the rapid development of deep network computation. Visual encoding model is aimed at predicting brain activity in response…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-30 Kai Qiao , Chi Zhang , Jian Chen , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Bin Yan

In recent decades, digital image processing has gained enormous popularity. Consequently, a number of data compression strategies have been put forth, with the goal of minimizing the amount of information required to represent images. Among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Suman Kunwar

In this paper we introduce a novel method for segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use binary encoding of…

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Decoding natural visual scenes from brain activity has flourished, with extensive research in single-subject tasks and, however, less in cross-subject tasks. Reconstructing high-quality images in cross-subject tasks is a challenging problem…

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Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently been shown in many computer vision and pattern recog- nition applications to outperform by a significant margin state- of-the-art solutions that use traditional hand-crafted features.…

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Despite the remarkable similarities between convolutional neural networks (CNN) and the human brain, CNNs still fall behind humans in many visual tasks, indicating that there still exist considerable differences between the two systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chi Zhang , Xiaohan Duan , Linyuan Wang , Yongli Li , Bin Yan , Guoen Hu , Ruyuan Zhang , Li Tong

In this work, we develop convolutional neural generative coding (Conv-NGC), a generalization of predictive coding to the case of convolution/deconvolution-based computation. Specifically, we concretely implement a flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali

Image colorization achieves more and more realistic results with the increasing computation power of recent deep learning techniques. It becomes more difficult to identify the fake colorized images by human eyes. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Weize Quan , Dong-Ming Yan , Kai Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Denis Pellerin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are now a well-established tool for solving computational imaging problems. Modern CNN-based algorithms obtain state-of-the-art performance in diverse image restoration problems. Furthermore, it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Julián Tachella , Junqi Tang , Mike Davies

Neural networks have emerged as a powerful tool for modeling physical systems, offering the ability to learn complex representations from limited data while integrating foundational scientific knowledge. In particular, neuro-symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Wenkai Tan , Alvaro Velasquez , Houbing Song

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

Learning powerful feature representations for image retrieval has always been a challenging task in the field of remote sensing. Traditional methods focus on extracting low-level hand-crafted features which are not only time-consuming but…

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