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Preference-conditioned image generation seeks to adapt generative models to individual users, producing outputs that reflect personal aesthetic choices beyond the given textual prompt. Despite recent progress, existing approaches either…

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An important task in image processing and neuroimaging is to extract quantitative information from the acquired images in order to make observations about the presence of disease or markers of development in populations. Having a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Camilo Bermudez , Andrew J. Plassard , Larry T. Davis , Allen T. Newton , Susan M Resnick , Bennett A. Landman

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

Imagine Alice has a specific image $x^\ast$ in her mind, say, the view of the street in which she grew up during her childhood. To generate that exact image, she guides a generative model with multiple rounds of prompting and arrives at an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Debottam Dutta , Yu-Lin Wei , Romit Roy Choudhury

Current AI frameworks for brain decoding and encoding, typically train and test models within the same datasets. This limits their utility for brain computer interfaces (BCI) or neurofeedback, for which it would be useful to pool…

The human brain is a complex system requiring both macroscopic and microscopic components for comprehensive understanding. However, mapping nonlinear relationships between these scales remains challenging due to technical limitations and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Sooyoung Kim , Joonwoo Kwon , Junbeom Kwon , Jungyoun Janice Min , Sangyoon Bae , Yuewei Lin , Shinjae Yoo , Jiook Cha

In neuroscience, understanding inter-individual differences has recently emerged as a major challenge, for which functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has proven invaluable. For this, neuroscientists rely on basic methods such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Akrem Sellami , François-Xavier Dupé , Bastien Cagna , Hachem Kadri , Stéphane Ayache , Thierry Artières , Sylvain Takerkart

Humans should be able work more effectively with artificial intelligence-based systems when they can predict likely failures and form useful mental models of how the systems work. We conducted a study of human's mental models of artificial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Kimberly Glasgow , Jonathan Kopecky , John Gersh , Adam Crego

Decades of psychological research have been aimed at modeling how people learn features and categories. The empirical validation of these theories is often based on artificial stimuli with simple representations. Recently, deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Joshua C. Peterson , Joshua T. Abbott , Thomas L. Griffiths

Functional MRI (fMRI) is widely used to examine brain functionality by detecting alteration in oxygenated blood flow that arises with brain activity. This work aims to investigate the neurological variation of human brain responses during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Naveen Kanigiri , Manohar Suggula , Debanjali Bhattacharya , Neelam Sinha

We present a deep neural network method for learning a personal representation for individuals that are performing a self neuromodulation task, guided by functional MRI (fMRI). This neurofeedback task (watch vs. regulate) provides the…

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are considered the current best models of biological vision. ANNs are the best predictors of neural activity in the ventral stream; moreover, recent work has demonstrated that ANN models fitted to neuronal…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-31 Li Yuan , Will Xiao , Giorgia Dellaferrera , Gabriel Kreiman , Francis E. H. Tay , Jiashi Feng , Margaret S. Livingstone

Modern vision models excel at general purpose downstream tasks. It is unclear, however, how they may be used for personalized vision tasks, which are both fine-grained and data-scarce. Recent works have successfully applied synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Shobhita Sundaram , Julia Chae , Yonglong Tian , Sara Beery , Phillip Isola

Multimodal learning, especially large-scale multimodal pre-training, has developed rapidly over the past few years and led to the greatest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its effectiveness, understanding the underlying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyu Lu , Qiongyi Zhou , Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Mingyu Ding , Jingyuan Wen , Changde Du , Xin Zhao , Hao Sun , Huiguang He , Ji-Rong Wen

Our ability to sample realistic natural images, particularly faces, has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, yet our ability to exert fine-tuned control over the generative process has lagged behind. If this new technology is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Marek Kowalski , Stephan J. Garbin , Virginia Estellers , Tadas Baltrušaitis , Matthew Johnson , Jamie Shotton

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianghao Yin , Qingbin Li , Kun Sun , Cheng Ding , Jie Wang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Nan Wang , Changqing Li , Pei Wu , Jian Xu , Zheming Yang , Liang He

The reconstruction of images observed by subjects from fMRI data collected during visual stimuli has made strong progress in the past decade, thanks to the availability of extensive fMRI datasets and advancements in generative models for…

Human behavior expression and experience are inherently multi-modal, and characterized by vast individual and contextual heterogeneity. To achieve meaningful human-computer and human-robot interactions, multi-modal models of the users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Ognjen Rudovic , Meiru Zhang , Bjorn Schuller , Rosalind W. Picard

In this study, we propose a neural network approach to capture the functional connectivities among anatomic brain regions. The suggested approach estimates a set of brain networks, each of which represents the connectivity patterns of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Baran Baris Kivilcim , Itir Onal Ertugrul , Fatos T. Yarman Vural

Single neurons in neural networks are often interpretable in that they represent individual, intuitively meaningful features. However, many neurons exhibit $\textit{mixed selectivity}$, i.e., they represent multiple unrelated features. A…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-19 David Klindt , Sophia Sanborn , Francisco Acosta , Frédéric Poitevin , Nina Miolane