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Visual relation detection (VRD) aims to identify relationships (or interactions) between object pairs in an image. Although recent VRD models have achieved impressive performance, they are all restricted to pre-defined relation categories,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kaifeng Gao , Siqi Chen , Hanwang Zhang , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , Qianru Sun

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

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activities provides a promising opportunity to advance our understanding of the brain's visual system and its connection with computer vision models. Although deep generative models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyuan Sun , Mingxiao Li , Marie-Francine Moens

High-level visual brain regions contain subareas in which neurons appear to respond more strongly to examples of a particular semantic category, like faces or bodies, rather than objects. However, recent work has shown that while this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alexander Lappe , Anna Bognár , Ghazaleh Ghamkhari Nejad , Albert Mukovskiy , Lucas Martini , Martin A. Giese , Rufin Vogels

Brain imaging classification is commonly approached from two perspectives: modeling the full image volume to capture global anatomical context, or constructing ROI-based graphs to encode localized and topological interactions. Although both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Wei Liang , Lifang He

This paper presents a new approach for relatively accurate brain region of interest (ROI) detection from dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) perfusion magnetic resonance (MR) images of a human head with abnormal brain anatomy. Such images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Svitlana Alkhimova

Deep neural networks (DNNs) trained on visual tasks develop feature representations that resemble those in the human visual system. Although DNN-based encoding models can accurately predict brain responses to visual stimuli, they offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Matthew W. Shinkle , Mark D. Lescroart

Brain encoder models predict cortical fMRI responses from the internal activations of pretrained vision and language networks, and are typically evaluated by held-out prediction accuracy. This is a useful signal for training but a poor one…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Stuart Bladon , Brinnae Bent

Understanding the functional organization of higher visual cortex is a central focus in neuroscience. Past studies have primarily mapped the visual and semantic selectivity of neural populations using hand-selected stimuli, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Andrew F. Luo , Margaret M. Henderson , Michael J. Tarr , Leila Wehbe

We introduce BrainSAIL, a method for linking neural selectivity with spatially distributed semantic visual concepts in natural scenes. BrainSAIL leverages recent advances in large-scale artificial neural networks, using them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Andrew F. Luo , Jacob Yeung , Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Margaret M. Henderson , Leila Wehbe , Michael J. Tarr

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Reconstructing visual stimuli from brain recordings has been a meaningful and challenging task. Especially, the achievement of precise and controllable image reconstruction bears great significance in propelling the progress and utilization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Yizhuo Lu , Changde Du , Qiongyi zhou , Dianpeng Wang , Huiguang He

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

While computer vision models have made incredible strides in static image recognition, they still do not match human performance in tasks that require the understanding of complex, dynamic motion. This is notably true for real-world…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-09 Jacob Yeung , Andrew F. Luo , Gabriel Sarch , Margaret M. Henderson , Deva Ramanan , Michael J. Tarr

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is characterized by its complexity and high--dimensionality, encompassing signals from various regions of interests (ROIs) that exhibit intricate correlations. Analyzing fMRI data directly…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-18 Yeseul Jeon , Jeong-Jae Kim , SuMin Yu , Junggu Choi , Sanghoon Han

A fine-grained account of functional selectivity in the cortex is essential for understanding how visual information is processed and represented in the brain. Classical studies using designed experiments have identified multiple…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-27 Ethan Hwang , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Andrew Luo , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Ruoyu Zhao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is an advanced imaging technique characterizing tissue microstructure and white matter structural connectivity of the human brain. The demand for high-quality dMRI data is growing, driven by the need for better…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Xi Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yijie Li , Lauren J. O'Donnell , Fan Zhang

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

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