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Analyzing and reconstructing visual stimuli from brain signals effectively advances the understanding of human visual system. However, the EEG signals are complex and contain significant noise. This leads to substantial limitations in…

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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…

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Many applications require an understanding of an image that goes beyond the simple detection and classification of its objects. In particular, a great deal of semantic information is carried in the relationships between objects. We have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Stephan Baier , Yunpu Ma , Volker Tresp

Diffusion models, while trained for image generation, have emerged as powerful foundational feature extractors for downstream tasks. We find that off-the-shelf diffusion models, trained exclusively to generate natural RGB images, can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nurislam Tursynbek , Hastings Greer , Basar Demir , Marc Niethammer

While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static…

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Achieving human-like memory recall in artificial systems remains a challenging frontier in computer vision. Humans demonstrate remarkable ability to recall images after a single exposure, even after being shown thousands of images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Virgile Foussereau , Robin Dumas

Current vision systems typically assign fixed-length representations to images, regardless of the information content. This contrasts with human intelligence - and even large language models - which allocate varying representational…

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Deep neural networks have brought remarkable breakthroughs in medical image analysis. However, due to their data-hungry nature, the modest dataset sizes in medical imaging projects might be hindering their full potential. Generating…

Object recognition is a key function in both human and machine vision. While recent studies have achieved fMRI decoding of seen and imagined contents, the prediction is limited to training examples. We present a decoding approach for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-28 Tomoyasu Horikawa , Yukiyasu Kamitani

Brain decoding, understood as the process of mapping brain activities to the stimuli that generated them, has been an active research area in the last years. In the case of language stimuli, recent studies have shown that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Nicolas Affolter , Beni Egressy , Damian Pascual , Roger Wattenhofer

This tutorial covers biomedical image reconstruction, from the foundational concepts of system modeling and direct reconstruction to modern sparsity and learning-based approaches. Imaging is a critical tool in biological research and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Michael T. McCann , Michael Unser

Modeling visual search not only offers an opportunity to predict the usability of an interface before actually testing it on real users, but also advances scientific understanding about human behavior. In this work, we first conduct a set…

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Decoding visual representations from brain signals has attracted significant attention in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence. However, the degree to which brain signals truly encode visual information remains unclear. Current…

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The characteristics of feature selection, nonlinear combination and multi-task auxiliary learning mechanism of the human visual perception system play an important role in real-world scenarios, but the research of image fusion theory based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

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…

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Reconstructing images using brain signals of imagined visuals may provide an augmented vision to the disabled, leading to the advancement of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. The recent progress in deep learning has boosted the…

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A foveated image can be entirely reconstructed from a sparse set of samples distributed according to the retinal sensitivity of the human visual system, which rapidly decreases with increasing eccentricity. The use of Generative Adversarial…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Luca Surace , Marek Wernikowski , Cara Tursun , Karol Myszkowski , Radosław Mantiuk , Piotr Didyk

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…

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3D human mesh recovery from monocular RGB images aims to estimate anatomically plausible 3D human models for downstream applications, but remains challenging under partial or severe occlusions. Regression-based methods are efficient yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yang Liu , Zhiyong Zhang

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…

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