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We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images. This task stems from the observation that text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Lu Li , Ge Zhang , Perouz Taslakian , Sai Rajeswar , Jie Fu , Bang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Automatic 3D neuron reconstruction is critical for analysing the morphology and functionality of neurons in brain circuit activities. However, the performance of existing tracing algorithms is hinged by the low image quality. Recently, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-17 Heng Wang , Chaoyi Zhang , Jianhui Yu , Yang Song , Siqi Liu , Wojciech Chrzanowski , Weidong Cai

Image captioning is one of the most challenging tasks in AI, which aims to automatically generate textual sentences for an image. Recent methods for image captioning follow encoder-decoder framework that transforms the sequence of salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou

Image denoising and high-level vision tasks are usually handled independently in the conventional practice of computer vision, and their connection is fragile. In this paper, we cope with the two jointly and explore the mutual influence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Ding Liu , Bihan Wen , Jianbo Jiao , Xianming Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Thomas S. Huang

The mouse is one of the most studied animal models in the field of systems neuroscience. Understanding the generalized patterns and decoding the neural representations that are evoked by the diverse range of natural scene stimuli in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ahmed Qazi , Hamd Jalil , Asim Iqbal

While brain-inspired artificial intelligence(AI) has demonstrated promising results, current understanding of the parallels between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and human brain processing remains limited: (1) unimodal ANN studies fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yudan Ren , Xinlong Wang , Kexin Wang , Tian Xia , Zihan Ma , Zhaowei Li , Xiangrong Bi , Xiao Li , Xiaowei He

Interpreting and explaining the behavior of deep neural networks is critical for many tasks. Explainable AI provides a way to address this challenge, mostly by providing per-pixel relevance to the decision. Yet, interpreting such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Visual question answering is a recently proposed artificial intelligence task that requires a deep understanding of both images and texts. In deep learning, images are typically modeled through convolutional neural networks, and texts are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Zhengyang Wang , Shuiwang Ji

Understanding how large-scale brain networks represent visual categories is fundamental to linking perception and cortical organization. Using high-resolution 7T fMRI from the Natural Scenes Dataset, we construct parcel-level functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Shira Karmi , Galia Avidan , Tammy Riklin Raviv

Due to the low signal-to-noise ratio and limited resolution of functional MRI data, and the high complexity of natural images, reconstructing a visual stimulus from human brain fMRI measurements is a challenging task. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zijin Gu , Keith Jamison , Amy Kuceyeski , Mert Sabuncu

Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a variety of real-world tasks. However, existing VLMs typically process visual information by serializing images, a method that diverges significantly from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yueyan Li , Chenggong Zhao , Zeyuan Zang , Caixia Yuan , Xiaojie Wang

Chart understanding requires models to effectively analyze and reason about numerical data, textual elements, and complex visual components. Our observations reveal that the perception capabilities of existing large vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Junteng Liu , Weihao Zeng , Xiwen Zhang , Yijun Wang , Zifei Shan , Junxian He

We introduce a new multi-modal task for computer systems, posed as a combined vision-language comprehension challenge: identifying the most suitable text describing a scene, given several similar options. Accomplishing the task entails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Nan Ding , Sebastian Goodman , Fei Sha , Radu Soricut

Image captioning is a challenging task and attracting more and more attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and which can be applied to efficient image retrieval, intelligent blind guidance and human-computer interaction, etc. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yiyu Wang , Jungang Xu , Yingfei Sun , Ben He

Humans tend to decompose a sentence into different parts like \textsc{sth do sth at someplace} and then fill each part with certain content. Inspired by this, we follow the \textit{principle of modular design} to propose a novel image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Chongyang Gao , Jianfei Cai

Reconstructing seeing images from fMRI recordings is an absorbing research area in neuroscience and provides a potential brain-reading technology. The challenge lies in that visual encoding in brain is highly complex and not fully revealed.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tao Fang , Yu Qi , Gang Pan

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on objects and scenes have shown intriguing ability to predict some response properties of visual cortical neurons. However, the factors and computations that give rise to such ability, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-11 Md Nasir Uddin Laskar , Luis G Sanchez Giraldo , Odelia Schwartz

Neural encoding models aim to predict fMRI-measured brain responses to natural images. fMRI data is acquired as a 3D volume of voxels, where each voxel has a defined spatial location in the brain. However, conventional encoding models often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-11 Haomiao Chen , Keith W Jamison , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable capabilities in comprehending complex visual content. However, the mechanisms underlying how VLMs process visual information remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Omri Kaduri , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel