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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

Brain decoding is a key neuroscience field that reconstructs the visual stimuli from brain activity with fMRI, which helps illuminate how the brain represents the world. fMRI-to-image reconstruction has achieved impressive progress by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-27 Guoying Sun , Weiyu Guo , Tong Shao , Yang Yang , Haijin Zeng , Jie Liu , Jingyong Su

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

Understanding how human brains interpret and process information is important. Here, we investigated the selectivity and inter-individual differences in human brain responses to images via functional MRI. In our first experiment, we found…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-20 Zijin Gu , Keith Jamison , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

Decoding and reconstructing images from brain imaging data is a research area of high interest. Recent progress in deep generative neural networks has introduced new opportunities to tackle this problem. Here, we employ a recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Milad Mozafari , Leila Reddy , Rufin VanRullen

Cognitive neuroscience is enjoying rapid increase in extensive public brain-imaging datasets. It opens the door to large-scale statistical models. Finding a unified perspective for all available data calls for scalable and automated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Danilo Bzdok , Bertrand Thirion , Gaël Varoquaux

We release NSD-Imagery, a benchmark dataset of human fMRI activity paired with mental images, to complement the existing Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), a large-scale dataset of fMRI activity paired with seen images that enabled unprecedented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Reese Kneeland , Paul S. Scotti , Ghislain St-Yves , Jesse Breedlove , Kendrick Kay , Thomas Naselaris

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

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) aims to locate activated regions in human brains when specific tasks are performed. The conventional tool for analyzing fMRI data applies some variant of the linear model, which is restrictive in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-08-08 Chunming Zhang , Tao Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have significantly advanced the field of novel view synthesis, yet their generalization across diverse scenes and conditions remains challenging. Addressing this, we propose the integration of a novel…

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

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on visual tasks develop feature representations that resemble those in the human visual system. Although DNN-based encoding models can accurately predict brain responses to visual stimuli, they offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Matthew W. Shinkle , Mark D. Lescroart

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

The work proposes a novel deep-learning framework for the synthesis of three-dimensional MRI volumes from corresponding 3D ultrasound images of the brain, leveraging a modified iteration of the Pix2Pix Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Shubham Singh , Mrunal Bewoor , Ammar Ranapurwala , Satyam Rai , Sheetal Patil

Human perception plays a vital role in forming beliefs and understanding reality. A deeper understanding of brain functionality will lead to the development of novel deep neural networks. In this work, we introduce a novel framework named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xuan-Bac Nguyen , Xin Li , Pawan Sinha , Samee U. Khan , Khoa Luu

Neuromorphic imaging is an emerging technique that imitates the human retina to sense variations in dynamic scenes. It responds to pixel-level brightness changes by asynchronous streaming events and boasts microsecond temporal precision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Pei Zhang , Shuo Zhu , Chutian Wang , Yaping Zhao , Edmund Y. Lam

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a neuroimaging technique that records neural activations in the brain by capturing the blood oxygen level in different regions based on the task performed by a subject. Given fMRI data, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ashish Jaiswal , Ashwin Ramesh Babu , Mohammad Zaki Zadeh , Fillia Makedon , Glenn Wylie

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly attracting attention in the computer vision, natural language processing, speech synthesis and similar domains. Arguably the most striking results have been in the area of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Zhengwei Wang , Qi She , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward , Graham Healy

A long standing goal in neuroscience has been to elucidate the functional organization of the brain. Within higher visual cortex, functional accounts have remained relatively coarse, focusing on regions of interest (ROIs) and taking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Andrew F. Luo , Margaret M. Henderson , Leila Wehbe , Michael J. Tarr

Understanding neural responses to visual stimuli remains challenging due to the inherent complexity of brain representations and the modality gap between neural data and visual inputs. Existing methods, mainly based on reducing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weihang You , Hanqi Jiang , Yi Pan , Junhao Chen , Tianming Liu , Fei Dou