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In neural decoding research, one of the most intriguing topics is the reconstruction of perceived natural images based on fMRI signals. Previous studies have succeeded in re-creating different aspects of the visuals, such as low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Furkan Ozcelik , Rufin VanRullen

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Biological research has revealed that the verbal semantic information in the brain cortex, as an additional source, participates in nonverbal semantic tasks, such as visual encoding. However, previous visual encoding models did not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Shuxiao Ma , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan

In the past few years, significant advancements were made in reconstruction of observed natural images from fMRI brain recordings using deep-learning tools. Here, for the first time, we show that dense 3D depth maps of observed 2D natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guy Gaziv , Michal Irani

Reconstructing human dynamic vision from brain activity is a challenging task with great scientific significance. Although prior video reconstruction methods have made substantial progress, they still suffer from several limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yizhuo Lu , Changde Du , Chong Wang , Xuanliu Zhu , Liuyun Jiang , Xujin Li , Huiguang He

The study of neurodegenerative diseases relies on the reconstruction and analysis of the brain cortex from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Traditional frameworks for this task like FreeSurfer demand lengthy runtimes, while its accelerated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Leo Lebrat , Pierrick Bourgeat , Clinton Fookes , Jurgen Fripp , Olivier Salvado

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

Decoding stimulus images from fMRI signals has advanced with pre-trained generative models. However, existing methods struggle with cross-subject mappings due to cognitive variability and subject-specific differences. This challenge arises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yangyang Xu , Bangzhen Liu , Wenqi Shao , Yong Du , Shengfeng He , Tingting Zhu

Reconstruction of static visual stimuli from non-invasion brain activity fMRI achieves great success, owning to advanced deep learning models such as CLIP and Stable Diffusion. However, the research on fMRI-to-video reconstruction remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Zixuan Gong , Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Zhongwei Wan , Duoqian Miao , Shoujin Wang , Lei Zhu , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Liang Hu , Ke Liu , Yu Zhang

Recent advances in fMRI-based image reconstruction have achieved remarkable photo-realistic fidelity. Yet, a persistent limitation remains: while reconstructed images often appear naturalistic and holistically similar to the target stimuli,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lan Yang , Minghan Yang , Ke Li , Honggang Zhang , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song

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

Image restoration, including image denoising, super resolution, inpainting, and so on, is a well-studied problem in computer vision and image processing, as well as a test bed for low-level image modeling algorithms. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xiao-Jiao Mao , Chunhua Shen , Yu-Bin Yang

Decoding visual stimuli from neural population activity is crucial for understanding the brain and for applications in brain-machine interfaces. However, such biological data is often scarce, particularly in primates or humans, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jan Sobotka , Luca Baroni , Ján Antolík

In neuroscience, all kinds of computation models were designed to answer the open question of how sensory stimuli are encoded by neurons and conversely, how sensory stimuli can be decoded from neuronal activities. Especially, functional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Kai Qiao , Chi Zhang , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan , Jian Chen , Lei Zeng , Li Tong

Recently, visual encoding and decoding based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have realized many achievements with the rapid development of deep network computation. Despite the hierarchically similar representations of deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-20 Kai Qiao , Jian Chen , Linyuan Wang , Chi Zhang , Lei Zeng , Li Tong , Bin Yan

We present a brain-to-image system that decodes visual stimuli from EEG signals recorded during natural image viewing. Our system addresses two tasks: (1) EEG-to-image retrieval, which ranks the correct stimulus image among 200 candidates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi Kit Wong , Yan Liu , Haowen Yan

Neuroscience studies have revealed that the brain encodes visual content and embeds information in neural activity. Recently, deep learning techniques have facilitated attempts to address visual reconstructions by mapping brain activity to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-05 Pei-Chun Chang , Yan-Yu Tien , Chia-Lin Chen , Li-Fen Chen , Yong-Sheng Chen , Hui-Ling Chan

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides dynamical access into the complex functioning of the human brain, detailing the hemodynamic activity of thousands of voxels during hundreds of sequential time points. One approach…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-16 Francois G. Meyer , Greg J. Stephens

Addressing the question of visualising human mind could help us to find regions that are associated with observed cognition and responsible for expressing the elusive mental image, leading to a better understanding of cognitive function.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-11 Pan Wang , Rui Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ling Li , Wenjia Bai , Jialu Fan , Chunlin Li , Peter Childs , Yike Guo

Decoding images from brain activity has been a challenge. Owing to the development of deep learning, there are available tools to solve this problem. The decoded image, which aims to map neural spike trains to low-level visual features and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Wenyi Li , Shengjie Zheng , Yufan Liao , Rongqi Hong , Weiliang Chen , Chenggnag He , Xiaojian Li