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Reconstructing human vision from brain activities has been an appealing task that helps to understand our cognitive process. Even though recent research has seen great success in reconstructing static images from non-invasive brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Zijiao Chen , Jiaxin Qing , Juan Helen Zhou

Understanding how the brain encodes external stimuli and how these stimuli can be decoded from the measured brain activities are long-standing and challenging questions in neuroscience. In this paper, we focus on reconstructing the complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Sikun Lin , Thomas Sprague , Ambuj K Singh

Image reconstruction and captioning from brain activity evoked by visual stimuli allow researchers to further understand the connection between the human brain and the visual perception system. While deep generative models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Reconstructing visual stimuli from fMRI signals is a central challenge bridging machine learning and neuroscience. Recent diffusion-based methods typically map fMRI activity to a single high-level embedding, using it as fixed guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xu Zhang , Ruijie Quan , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Seeing is believing, however, the underlying mechanism of how human visual perceptions are intertwined with our cognitions is still a mystery. Thanks to the recent advances in both neuroscience and artificial intelligence, we have been able…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Yu-Ting Lan , Kan Ren , Yansen Wang , Wei-Long Zheng , Dongsheng Li , Bao-Liang Lu , Lili Qiu

Reconstructing visual information from brain activity bridges the gap between neuroscience and computer vision. Even though progress has been made in decoding images from fMRI using generative models, a challenge remains in accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Shiyi Zhang , Dong Liang , Hairong Zheng , Yihang Zhou

We present DiffBIR, a general restoration pipeline that could handle different blind image restoration tasks in a unified framework. DiffBIR decouples blind image restoration problem into two stages: 1) degradation removal: removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Xinqi Lin , Jingwen He , Ziyan Chen , Zhaoyang Lyu , Bo Dai , Fanghua Yu , Wanli Ouyang , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong

The integration of deep learning and neuroscience has been advancing rapidly, which has led to improvements in the analysis of brain activity and the understanding of deep learning models from a neuroscientific perspective. The…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-21 Yu Takagi , Shinji Nishimoto

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Honghao Fu , Zhiqi Shen , Jing Jih Chin , Hao Wang

Decoding visual stimuli from brain recordings aims to deepen our understanding of the human visual system and build a solid foundation for bridging human and computer vision through the Brain-Computer Interface. However, reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zijiao Chen , Jiaxin Qing , Tiange Xiang , Wan Lin Yue , Juan Helen Zhou

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

With the increasing deployment of facial image data across a wide range of applications, efficient compression tailored to facial semantics has become critical for both storage and transmission. While recent learning-based face image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yimin Zhou , Yichong Xia , Bin Chen , Mingyao Hong , Jiawei Li , Zhi Wang , Yaowei Wang

Understanding how the brain encodes visual information is a central challenge in neuroscience and machine learning. A promising approach is to reconstruct visual stimuli, essentially images, from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zheng Huang , Enpei Zhang , Weikang Qiu , Yinghao Cai , Carl Yang , Elynn Chen , Xiang Zhang , Rex Ying , Dawei Zhou , Yujun Yan

Every day, the human brain processes an immense volume of visual information, relying on intricate neural mechanisms to perceive and interpret these stimuli. Recent breakthroughs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matteo Ferrante , Furkan Ozcelik , Tommaso Boccato , Rufin VanRullen , Nicola Toschi

Recent fMRI-to-image approaches mainly focused on associating fMRI signals with specific conditions of pre-trained diffusion models. These approaches, while producing high-quality images, capture only a limited aspect of the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jingyang Huo , Yikai Wang , Xuelin Qian , Yun Wang , Chong Li , Jianfeng Feng , Yanwei Fu

This paper presents PolyDiffuse, a novel structured reconstruction algorithm that transforms visual sensor data into polygonal shapes with Diffusion Models (DM), an emerging machinery amid exploding generative AI, while formulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jiacheng Chen , Ruizhi Deng , Yasutaka Furukawa

Recent progress in visual brain decoding from fMRI has been enabled by large-scale datasets such as the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) and powerful diffusion-based generative models. While current pipelines are primarily optimized for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-20 Fabrizio Spera , Tommaso Boccato , Michal Olak , Sara Cammarota , Matteo Ciferri , Michelangelo Tronti , Nicola Toschi , Matteo Ferrante

Research efforts for visual decoding from fMRI signals have attracted considerable attention in research community. Still multi-subject fMRI decoding with one model has been considered intractable due to the drastic variations in fMRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Inhwa Han , Jaayeon Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Can we directly visualize what we imagine in our brain together with what we describe? The inherent nature of human perception reveals that, when we think, our body can combine language description and build a vivid picture in our brain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ling Wang , Chen Wu , Lin Wang

Deep MRI reconstruction is commonly performed with conditional models that de-alias undersampled acquisitions to recover images consistent with fully-sampled data. Since conditional models are trained with knowledge of the imaging operator,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Alper Güngör , Salman UH Dar , Şaban Öztürk , Yilmaz Korkmaz , Gokberk Elmas , Muzaffer Özbey , Tolga Çukur