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Despite the rapid advances in Brain-computer Interfacing (BCI) and continuous effort to improve the accuracy of brain decoding systems, the urge for the systems to reconstruct the experiences of the users has been widely acknowledged. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Pouya Ghaemmaghami

The human visual system is capable of processing continuous streams of visual information, but how the brain encodes and retrieves recent visual memories during continuous visual processing remains unexplored. This study investigates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Runze Xia , Congchi Yin , Piji Li

Brain-to-Image reconstruction aims to recover visual stimuli perceived by humans from brain activity. However, the reconstructed visual stimuli often missing details and semantic inconsistencies, which may be attributed to insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Runze Xia , Shuo Feng , Renzhi Wang , Congchi Yin , Xuyun Wen , Piji Li

In the past five years, the use of generative and foundational AI systems has greatly improved the decoding of brain activity. Visual perception, in particular, can now be decoded from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Yohann Benchetrit , Hubert Banville , Jean-Rémi King

In this paper, we introduce Recon3DMind, an innovative task aimed at reconstructing 3D visuals from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) signals, marking a significant advancement in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jianxiong Gao , Yuqian Fu , Yun Wang , Xuelin Qian , Jianfeng Feng , Yanwei Fu

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

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

Understanding the hidden mechanisms behind human's visual perception is a fundamental question in neuroscience. To that end, investigating into the neural responses of human mind activities, such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuankun Yang , Li Zhang , Ziyang Xie , Zhiyuan Yuan , Jianfeng Feng , Xiatian Zhu , Yu-Gang Jiang

The reconstruction of human visual inputs from brain activity, particularly through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), holds promising avenues for unraveling the mechanisms of the human visual system. Despite the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yujian Xiong , Wenhui Zhu , Zhong-Lin Lu , Yalin Wang

Despite significant strides in visual quality assessment, the neural mechanisms underlying visual quality perception remain insufficiently explored. This study employed fMRI to examine brain activity during image quality assessment and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yiming Zhang , Ying Hu , Xiongkuo Min , Yan Zhou , Guangtao Zhai

The goal of this study is to investigate whether latent space representations of visual stimuli and fMRI data share common information. Decoding and reconstructing stimuli from fMRI data remains a challenge in AI and neuroscience, with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-28 Cesare Maria Dalbagno , Manuel de Castro Ribeiro Jardim , Mihnea Angheluţă

In this work, we explore the decoding of mental imagery from subjects using their fMRI measurements. In order to achieve this decoding, we first created a mapping between a subject's fMRI signals elicited by the videos the subjects watched.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Arman Afrasiyabi , Erica Busch , Rahul Singh , Dhananjay Bhaskar , Laurent Caplette , Nicholas Turk-Browne , Smita Krishnaswamy

Understanding how spontaneous brain activity relates to stimulus-driven neural responses is a fundamental challenge in cognitive neuroscience. While task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) captures localized stimulus-evoked…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 Chuyang Zhou , Ziao Ji , Daochang Liu , Dongang Wang , Chenyu Wang , Chang Xu

Decoding sensory experiences from neural activity to reconstruct human-perceived visual stimuli and semantic content remains a challenge in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Despite notable progress in current brain decoding models,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-13 Feihan Feng , Jingxin Nie

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Weihao Xia , Raoul de Charette , Cengiz Öztireli , Jing-Hao Xue

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

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

The human brain possesses remarkable abilities in visual processing, including image recognition and scene summarization. Efforts have been made to understand the cognitive capacities of the visual brain, but a comprehensive understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Subhrasankar Chatterjee , Debasis Samanta

Reconstructing visual stimuli from measured functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been a meaningful and challenging task. Previous studies have successfully achieved reconstructions with structures similar to the original images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yizhuo Lu , Changde Du , Dianpeng Wang , Huiguang He

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging modality. However, long acquisition times remain a significant challenge, leading to increased costs, and reduced patient comfort. Recent studies have shown the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Amirmohammad Shamaei , Alexander Stebner , Salome , Bosshart , Johanna Ospel , Gouri Ginde , Mariana Bento , Roberto Souza