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The connection between brain activity and corresponding visual stimuli is crucial in comprehending the human brain. While deep generative models have exhibited advancement in recovering brain recordings by generating images conditioned on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xuelin Qian , Yikai Wang , Yanwei Fu , Xinwei Sun , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

Positional encodings enable Transformers to incorporate sequential information, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited to two properties: distance attenuation and translation invariance. Because natural language lacks purely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihan Gu , Ruoyu Chen , Han Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yue Hu

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

This work presents a novel method of exploring human brain-visual representations, with a view towards replicating these processes in machines. The core idea is to learn plausible computational and biological representations by correlating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato , Isaak Kavasidis , Daniela Giordano , Joseph Schmidt , Mubarak Shah

Sensory neuroscience seeks to understand how the brain encodes natural environments. However, neural coding has largely been studied using simplified stimuli. In order to assess whether the brain's coding strategy depend on the stimulus…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Tatyana O. Sharpee , Hiroki Sugihara , Andrei V. Kurgansky , Sergei P. Rebrik , Michael P. Stryker , Kenneth D. Miller

Decoding cognitive states from functional magnetic resonance imaging is central to understanding the functional organization of the brain. Within-subject decoding avoids between-subject correspondence problems but requires large sample…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Himanshu Aggarwal , Liza Al-Shikhley , Bertrand Thirion

The potential of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (mAI) to replicate human grounded language understanding, including the pragmatic, context-rich aspects of communication, remains to be clarified. Humans are known to use…

Humans can infer approximate interaction force between objects from only vision information because we already have learned it through experiences. Based on this idea, we propose a recurrent convolutional neural network-based method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hochul Shin , Hyeon Cho , Dongyi Kim , Daekwan Ko , Soochul Lim , Wonjun Hwang

Image-to-fMRI encoding is important for both neuroscience research and practical applications. However, such "Brain-Encoders" have been typically trained per-subject and per fMRI-dataset, thus restricted to very limited training data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Roman Beliy , Navve Wasserman , Amit Zalcher , Michal Irani

The tracking-by-detection framework requires a set of positive and negative training samples to learn robust tracking models for precise localization of target objects. However, existing tracking models mostly treat different samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Xiao Wang , Chenglong Li , Rui Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end self-driving network featuring a sparse attention module that learns to automatically attend to important regions of the input. The attention module specifically targets motion planning, whereas prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Bob Wei , Mengye Ren , Wenyuan Zeng , Ming Liang , Bin Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Algorithms for the estimation of gaze direction from mobile and video-based eye trackers typically involve tracking a feature of the eye that moves through the eye camera image in a way that covaries with the shifting gaze direction, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Kevin Barkevich , Reynold Bailey , Gabriel J. Diaz

Neural IR architectures, particularly cross-encoders, are highly effective models whose internal mechanisms are mostly unknown. Most works trying to explain their behavior focused on high-level processes (e.g., what in the input influences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mathias Vast , Basile Van Cooten , Laure Soulier , Benjamin Piwowarski

We introduce an online neural sequence to sequence model that learns to alternate between encoding and decoding segments of the input as it is read. By independently tracking the encoding and decoding representations our algorithm permits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Lei Yu , Jan Buys , Phil Blunsom

Neural representations of visual perception are affected by mental imagery and attention. Although attention is known to modulate neural representations, it is unknown how imagery changes neural representations when imagined and perceived…

The purpose of this work is to investigate the soundness and utility of a neural network-based approach as a framework for exploring the impact of image enhancement techniques on visual cortex activation. In a preliminary study, we prepare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Valentyn Piskovskyi , Riccardo Chimisso , Sabrina Patania , Tom Foulsham , Giuseppe Vizzari , Dimitri Ognibene

Deep neural perception and control networks are likely to be a key component of self-driving vehicles. These models need to be explainable - they should provide easy-to-interpret rationales for their behavior - so that passengers, insurance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Jinkyu Kim , John Canny

We present an approach that combines appearance and semantic information for 2D image-based localization (2D-VL) across large perceptual changes and time lags. Compared to appearance features, the semantic layout of a scene is generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Zachary Seymour , Karan Sikka , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Embodied AI models often employ off the shelf vision backbones like CLIP to encode their visual observations. Although such general purpose representations encode rich syntactic and semantic information about the scene, much of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Ainaz Eftekhar , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Jiafei Duan , Ali Farhadi , Ani Kembhavi , Ranjay Krishna

Visual attention plays an important role to understand images and demonstrates its effectiveness in generating natural language descriptions of images. On the other hand, recent studies show that language associated with an image can steer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Jonghwan Mun , Minsu Cho , Bohyung Han