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Biological visual systems learn from limited experience, unlike deep learning models that rely on millions of training images. What learning principles make this possible? We tested whether efficient coding, the idea that neural…

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While capable of segregating visual data, humans take time to examine a single piece, let alone thousands or millions of samples. The deep learning models efficiently process sizeable information with the help of modern-day computing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Alankrit Mishra , Nikhil Raj , Garima Bajwa

Decoding speech from brain activity has typically relied on limited neural recordings collected during short and highly controlled experiments. Here, we introduce a framework to leverage week-long intracranial and audio recordings from…

Multimodal learning, especially large-scale multimodal pre-training, has developed rapidly over the past few years and led to the greatest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its effectiveness, understanding the underlying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyu Lu , Qiongyi Zhou , Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Mingyu Ding , Jingyuan Wen , Changde Du , Xin Zhao , Hao Sun , Huiguang He , Ji-Rong Wen

Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

Subject-agnostic brain decoding, which aims to reconstruct continuous visual experiences from fMRI without subject-specific training, holds great potential for clinical applications. However, this direction remains underexplored due to…

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Artificial neural networks trained on visual tasks develop internal representations resembling those of the primate visual system, a discovery that has guided a decade of computational neuroscience. Research on building brain-aligned models…

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Multimodal brain decoding aims to reconstruct semantic information that is consistent with visual stimuli from brain activity signals such as fMRI, and then generate readable natural language descriptions. However, multimodal brain decoding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xuanyu Hu

Understanding brain disorders is crucial for accurate clinical diagnosis and treatment. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a promising approach to interpreting medical images with the support of text…

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Understanding neural responses to visual stimuli remains challenging due to the inherent complexity of brain representations and the modality gap between neural data and visual inputs. Existing methods, mainly based on reducing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weihang You , Hanqi Jiang , Yi Pan , Junhao Chen , Tianming Liu , Fei Dou

In cognitive decoding, researchers aim to characterize a brain region's representations by identifying the cognitive states (e.g., accepting/rejecting a gamble) that can be identified from the region's activity. Deep learning (DL) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Armin W. Thomas , Christopher Ré , Russell A. Poldrack

Decoding human activity from EEG signals has long been a popular research topic. While recent studies have increasingly shifted focus from single-subject to cross-subject analysis, few have explored the model's ability to perform zero-shot…

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We propose NEURONA, a neuro-symbolic framework for fMRI decoding and concept grounding in neural activity. Leveraging image- and video-based fMRI question-answering datasets, NEURONA learns to decode interacting concepts from visual stimuli…

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Conventionally, image denoising and high-level vision tasks are handled separately in computer vision. In this paper, we cope with the two jointly and explore the mutual influence between them. First we propose a convolutional neural…

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When a facial image is blurred, it significantly affects high-level vision tasks such as face recognition. The purpose of facial image deblurring is to recover a clear image from a blurry input image, which can improve the recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Bingnan Wang , Fanjiang Xu , Quan Zheng

The application of deep learning (DL) models to neuroimaging data poses several challenges, due to the high dimensionality, low sample size and complex temporo-spatial dependency structure of these datasets. Even further, DL models act as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Armin W. Thomas , Hauke R. Heekeren , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

As a technology to read brain states from measurable brain activities, brain decoding are widely applied in industries and medical sciences. In spite of high demands in these applications for a universal decoder that can be applied to all…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Sotetsu Koyamada , Yumi Shikauchi , Ken Nakae , Masanori Koyama , Shin Ishii

The application of deep learning to build accurate predictive models from functional neuroimaging data is often hindered by limited dataset sizes. Though data augmentation can help mitigate such training obstacles, most data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kevin P. Nguyen , Cherise Chin Fatt , Alex Treacher , Cooper Mellema , Madhukar H. Trivedi , Albert Montillo

The joint alignment of multivariate functional data plays an important role in various fields such as signal processing, neuroscience and medicine, including the statistical analysis of data from wearable devices. Traditional methods often…

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