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Reconstructing human vision from brain activities has been an appealing task that helps to understand our cognitive process. Even though recent research has seen great success in reconstructing static images from non-invasive brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Zijiao Chen , Jiaxin Qing , Juan Helen Zhou

Using single-task deep learning methods to reconstruct Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data acquired with different imaging sequences is inherently challenging. The trained deep learning model typically lacks generalizability, and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Wanyu Bian , Albert Jang , Fang Liu

Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. This review traces the field's evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yukiyasu Kamitani , Misato Tanaka , Ken Shirakawa

While computer vision models have made incredible strides in static image recognition, they still do not match human performance in tasks that require the understanding of complex, dynamic motion. This is notably true for real-world…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-09 Jacob Yeung , Andrew F. Luo , Gabriel Sarch , Margaret M. Henderson , Deva Ramanan , Michael J. Tarr

Reconstructing visual stimuli from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI enables fine-grained retrieval of brain activity. However, the accurate reconstruction of diverse details, including structure, background, texture, color, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Haoyu Li , Hao Wu , Badong Chen

Decoding visual stimuli from neural activity is essential for understanding the human brain. While fMRI methods have successfully reconstructed static images, fMRI-to-video reconstruction faces challenges due to the need for capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Haonan Wang , Qixiang Zhang , Lehan Wang , Xuanqi Huang , Xiaomeng Li

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

Functional MRI (fMRI) is a powerful technique that has allowed us to characterize visual cortex responses to stimuli, yet such experiments are by nature constructed based on a priori hypotheses, limited to the set of images presented to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Zijin Gu , Keith W. Jamison , Meenakshi Khosla , Emily J. Allen , Yihan Wu , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick Kay , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

Reconstructing visual stimuli from brain recordings has been a meaningful and challenging task. Especially, the achievement of precise and controllable image reconstruction bears great significance in propelling the progress and utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yizhuo Lu , Changde Du , Qiongyi zhou , Dianpeng Wang , Huiguang He

Reconstructing perceived natural images from fMRI signals is one of the most engaging topics of neural decoding research. Prior studies had success in reconstructing either the low-level image features or the semantic/high-level aspects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Furkan Ozcelik , Bhavin Choksi , Milad Mozafari , Leila Reddy , Rufin VanRullen

We present MindEye, a novel fMRI-to-image approach to retrieve and reconstruct viewed images from brain activity. Our model comprises two parallel submodules that are specialized for retrieval (using contrastive learning) and reconstruction…

Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the most common method for investigating the human brain. However, fMRI data present some complications for statistical analysis and modeling. One recently developed approach to these data focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-19 Vincent Q. Vu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick N. Kay , Jack L. Gallant , Bin Yu

Reconstructing images seen by people from their fMRI brain recordings provides a non-invasive window into the human brain. Despite recent progress enabled by diffusion models, current methods often lack faithfulness to the actual seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Roman Beliy , Amit Zalcher , Jonathan Kogman , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

This work introduces a novel approach to fMRI-based visual image reconstruction using a subject-agnostic common representation space. We show that the brain signals of the subjects can be aligned in this common space during training to form…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Christos Zangos , Danish Ebadulla , Thomas Christopher Sprague , Ambuj Singh

Decoding non-invasive brain recordings is pivotal for advancing our understanding of human cognition but faces challenges due to individual differences and complex neural signal representations. Traditional methods often require customized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Xiang He , Linghao Feng , Yiting Dong , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

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

Capturing dynamic spatiotemporal neural activity is essential for understanding large-scale brain mechanisms. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides high-resolution cortical representations that form a strong basis for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Wanying Qu , Jianxiong Gao , Wei Wang , Yanwei Fu

Reconstructing natural images from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data remains a core challenge in natural decoding due to the mismatch between the richness of visual stimuli and the noisy, low resolution nature of fMRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Junliang Ye , Lei Wang , Md Zakir Hossain

Previous studies have shown that it is possible to map brain activation data of subjects viewing images onto the feature representation space of not only vision models (modality-specific decoding) but also language models (cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mitja Nikolaus , Milad Mozafari , Nicholas Asher , Leila Reddy , Rufin VanRullen

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity based on language representations has been actively studied in systems neuroscience. However, previous studies examined word-level representation, and little is known about whether we could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Eri Matsuo , Ichiro Kobayashi , Shinji Nishimoto , Satoshi Nishida , Hideki Asoh