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Image captioning is one of the most challenging tasks in AI, which aims to automatically generate textual sentences for an image. Recent methods for image captioning follow encoder-decoder framework that transforms the sequence of salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Zeliang Song , Xiaofei Zhou

Recent progress in brain-guided image generation has improved the quality of fMRI-based reconstructions; however, fundamental challenges remain in preserving object-level structure and semantic fidelity. Many existing approaches overlook…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mohammad Moradi , Morteza Moradi , Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiawen Zheng , Haonan Jia , Ming Li , Yuhui Zheng , Yufeng Zeng , Yang Gao , Chen Liang

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

The human visual system is capable of processing continuous streams of visual information, but how the brain encodes and retrieves recent visual memories during continuous visual processing remains unexplored. This study investigates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Runze Xia , Congchi Yin , Piji Li

Decoding visual stimuli from neural recordings is a critical challenge in the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Although recent EEG-based decoding approaches have made progress in tasks such as visual classification,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dongyang Li , Haoyang Qin , Mingyang Wu , Jiahua Tang , Yuang Cao , Chen Wei , Quanying Liu

A major goal of neuroscience is to understand brain computations during visual processing in naturalistic settings. A dominant approach is to use image-computable deep neural networks trained with different task objectives as a basis for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-06 Hossein Adeli , Sun Minni , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Image captioning involves generating textual descriptions from input images, bridging the gap between computer vision and natural language processing. Recent advancements in transformer-based models have significantly improved caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Israa A. Albadarneh , Bassam H. Hammo , Omar S. Al-Kadi

We address the challenging problem of image captioning by revisiting the representation of image scene graph. At the core of our method lies the decomposition of a scene graph into a set of sub-graphs, with each sub-graph capturing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yiwu Zhong , Liwei Wang , Jianshu Chen , Dong Yu , Yin Li

Decoding natural visual scenes from brain activity has flourished, with extensive research in single-subject tasks and, however, less in cross-subject tasks. Reconstructing high-quality images in cross-subject tasks is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zixuan Gong , Qi Zhang , Guangyin Bao , Lei Zhu , Ke Liu , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

Attention mechanisms have attracted considerable interest in image captioning because of its powerful performance. Existing attention-based models use feedback information from the caption generator as guidance to determine which of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Zhihao Zhu , Zhan Xue , Zejian Yuan

Generative AI has recently propelled the decoding of images from brain activity. How do these approaches scale with the amount and type of neural recordings? Here, we systematically compare image decoding from four types of non-invasive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Hubert Banville , Yohann Benchetrit , Stéphane d'Ascoli , Jérémy Rapin , Jean-Rémi King

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

The human brain is adept at solving difficult high-level visual processing problems such as image interpretation and object recognition in natural scenes. Over the past few years neuroscientists have made remarkable progress in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-22 Pulkit Agrawal , Dustin Stansbury , Jitendra Malik , Jack L. Gallant

Image captioning, which generates natural language descriptions of the visual information in an image, is a crucial task in vision-language research. Previous models have typically addressed this task by aligning the generative capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Qian Cao , Xu Chen , Ruihua Song , Xiting Wang , Xinting Huang , Yuchen Ren

Cognitive neuroscience is enjoying rapid increase in extensive public brain-imaging datasets. It opens the door to large-scale statistical models. Finding a unified perspective for all available data calls for scalable and automated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Arthur Mensch , Julien Mairal , Danilo Bzdok , Bertrand Thirion , Gaël Varoquaux

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