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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…

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Image captioning is a challenging problem owing to the complexity in understanding the image content and diverse ways of describing it in natural language. Recent advances in deep neural networks have substantially improved the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Zhou Ren , Xiaoyu Wang , Ning Zhang , Xutao Lv , Li-Jia Li

Decoding visual content from fMRI signals recorded while a person views images, and specifically answering questions about the seen images, is a long-standing challenge. While significant progress has been made in recent years in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Roman Beliy , Matias Cosarinsky , Oliver Heinimann , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

Masking strategies commonly employed in natural language processing are still underexplored in vision tasks such as concept learning, where conventional methods typically rely on full images. However, using masked images diversifies…

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based image reconstruction plays a pivotal role in decoding human perception, with applications in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces. While recent advancements in deep learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Weiyu Guo , Guoying Sun , JianXiang He , Tong Shao , Shaoguang Wang , Ziyang Chen , Meisheng Hong , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

Inspired by how the human brain employs a higher number of neural pathways when describing a highly focused subject, we show that deep attentive models used for the main vision-language task of image captioning, could be extended to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Zanyar Zohourianshahzadi , Jugal K. Kalita

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

Computational neuroimaging involves analyzing brain images or signals to provide mechanistic insights and predictive tools for human cognition and behavior. While diffusion models have shown stability and high-quality generation in natural…

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Image compression and reconstruction are crucial for various digital applications. While contemporary neural compression methods achieve impressive compression rates, the adoption of such technology has been largely hindered by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ethan G. Rogers , Cheng Wang

Reconstructing visual stimulus (image) only from human brain activity measured with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a significant and meaningful task in Human-AI collaboration. However, the inconsistent distribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Ziqi Ren , Jie Li , Xuetong Xue , Xin Li , Fan Yang , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Dense captioning is a newly emerging computer vision topic for understanding images with dense language descriptions. The goal is to densely detect visual concepts (e.g., objects, object parts, and interactions between them) from images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Linjie Yang , Kevin Tang , Jianchao Yang , Li-Jia Li

While advanced image captioning systems are increasingly describing images coherently and exactly, recent progress in continual learning allows deep learning models to avoid catastrophic forgetting. However, the domain where image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Giang Nguyen , Tae Joon Jun , Trung Tran , Tolcha Yalew , Daeyoung Kim

On basis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers are devoted to designing visual encoding models to predict the neuron activity of human in response to presented image stimuli and analyze inner mechanism of human visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Kai Qiao , Chi Zhang , Jian Chen , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Bin Yan

Automatically generating a natural language description of an image has attracted interests recently both because of its importance in practical applications and because it connects two major artificial intelligence fields: computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Quanzeng You , Hailin Jin , Zhaowen Wang , Chen Fang , Jiebo Luo

Visual prostheses hold great promise for restoring vision in blind individuals. While researchers have successfully utilized M/EEG signals to evoke visual perceptions during the brain decoding stage of visual prostheses, the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ganxi Xu , Zhao-Rong Lai , Yuting Tang , Yonghao Song , Guoxu Zhou , Boyu wang , Jian Zhu , Jinyi Long

Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

In recent years, the biggest advances in major Computer Vision tasks, such as object recognition, handwritten-digit identification, facial recognition, and many others., have all come through the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Elaina Tan , Lakshay Sharma

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

Language decoding studies have identified word representations which can be used to predict brain activity in response to novel words and sentences (Anderson et al., 2016; Pereira et al., 2018). The unspoken assumption of these studies is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jon Gauthier , Anna Ivanova

Brain decoding that classifies cognitive states using the functional fluctuations of the brain can provide insightful information for understanding the brain mechanisms of cognitive functions. Among the common procedures of decoding the…

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