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Recent advances in deep learning have led to significant progress in the computer vision field, especially for visual object recognition tasks. The features useful for object classification are learned by feed-forward deep convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Panqu Wang , Garrison W. Cottrell

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

Mapping human brain activity to natural images offers a new window into vision and cognition, yet current diffusion-based decoders face a core difficulty: most condition directly on fMRI features without analyzing how visual information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Guowei Zhang , Yun Zhao , Moein Khajehnejad , Adeel Razi , Levin Kuhlmann

Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

We propose an end-to-end deep neural encoder-decoder model to encode and decode brain activity in response to naturalistic stimuli using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Leveraging temporally correlated input from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Florian David , Michael Chan , Elenor Morgenroth , Patrik Vuilleumier , Dimitri Van De Ville

Understanding how humans process visual information is one of the crucial steps for unraveling the underlying mechanism of brain activity. Recently, this curiosity has motivated the fMRI-to-image reconstruction task; given the fMRI data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jaehoon Joo , Taejin Jeong , Seongjae Hwang

The dispute of how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge has been argued in many scientific fields. Brain imaging studies have shown that the spatial patterns of neural activation in the brain are correlated with thinking about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-15 Subba Reddy Oota , Naresh Manwani , Bapi Raju S

Brain decoding aims to reconstruct visual perception of human subject from fMRI signals, which is crucial for understanding brain's perception mechanisms. Existing methods are confined to the single-subject paradigm due to substantial brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yuqin Dai , Zhouheng Yao , Chunfeng Song , Qihao Zheng , Weijian Mai , Kunyu Peng , Shuai Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Jian Yang , Jiamin Wu

Dreaming is generally thought to be generated by spontaneous brain activity during sleep with patterns common to waking experience. This view is supported by a recent study demonstrating that dreamed objects can be predicted from brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-24 Tomoyasu Horikawa , Yukiyasu Kamitani

Understanding how the brain encodes external stimuli and how these stimuli can be decoded from the measured brain activities are long-standing and challenging questions in neuroscience. In this paper, we focus on reconstructing the complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Sikun Lin , Thomas Sprague , Ambuj K Singh

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) use brain signals such as electroencephalography to reflect user intention and enable two-way communication between computers and users. BCI technology has recently received much attention in healthcare…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Byoung-Hee Kwon , Ji-Hoon Jeong , Seong-Whan Lee

Reconstructing dynamic visual experiences as videos from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is pivotal for advancing the understanding of neural processes. However, current fMRI-to-video reconstruction methods are hindered by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yujie Wei , Chenglong Ma , Jianxiong Gao , Chenhui Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Biao Gong , Shuai Tan , Hangjie Yuan , Hongming Shan

The human visual system is an intricate network of brain regions that enables us to recognize the world around us. Despite its abundant lateral and feedback connections, object processing is commonly viewed and studied as a feedforward…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-09 Tim C Kietzmann , Courtney J Spoerer , Lynn Sörensen , Radoslaw M Cichy , Olaf Hauk , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Deciphering visual content from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) helps illuminate the human vision system. However, the scarcity of fMRI data and noise hamper brain decoding model performance. Previous approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yulong Liu , Yongqiang Ma , Guibo Zhu , Haodong Jing , Nanning Zheng

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

The complex multi-stage architecture of cortical visual pathways provides the neural basis for efficient visual object recognition in humans. However, the stage-wise computations therein remain poorly understood. Here, we compared temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Radoslaw M. Cichy , Aditya Khosla , Dimitrios Pantazis , Antonio Torralba , Aude Oliva

Every day, the human brain processes an immense volume of visual information, relying on intricate neural mechanisms to perceive and interpret these stimuli. Recent breakthroughs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matteo Ferrante , Furkan Ozcelik , Tommaso Boccato , Rufin VanRullen , Nicola Toschi

In daily life, we encounter diverse external stimuli, such as images, sounds, and videos. As research in multimodal stimuli and neuroscience advances, fMRI-based brain decoding has become a key tool for understanding brain perception and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pengyu Liu , Guohua Dong , Dan Guo , Kun Li , Fengling Li , Xun Yang , Meng Wang , Xiaomin Ying

Brain decoding is a hot spot in cognitive science, which focuses on reconstructing perceptual images from brain activities. Analyzing the correlations of collected data from human brain activities and representing activity patterns are two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Siyu Yu , Nanning Zheng , Yongqiang Ma , Hao Wu , Badong Chen

Support vector machine (SVM) based multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has delivered promising performance in decoding specific task states based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the human brain. Conventionally, the…