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Understanding how the human brain represents visual concepts, and in which brain regions these representations are encoded, remains a long-standing challenge. Decades of work have advanced our understanding of visual representations, yet…

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This study introduces a pioneering approach in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, featuring our novel concept of high-level visual imagery for non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG)-based communication. High-level visual imagery,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Byoung-Hee Kwon , Minji Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

The human brain provides a range of functions such as expressing emotions, controlling the rate of breathing, etc., and its study has attracted the interest of scientists for many years. As machine learning models become more sophisticated,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Felix G. Hamza-Lup , Adytia Suri , Ionut E. Iacob , Ioana R. Goldbach , Lateef Rasheed , Paul N. Borza

Functional Magnetic Resonance Image (fMRI) is commonly employed to study human brain activity, since it offers insight into the relationship between functional fluctuations and human behavior. To enhance analysis and comprehension of brain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Song Wang , Zhenyu Lei , Zhen Tan , Jiaqi Ding , Xinyu Zhao , Yushun Dong , Guorong Wu , Tianlong Chen , Chen Chen , Aiying Zhang , Jundong Li

Efficiently detecting human intent to interact with ubiquitous robots is crucial for effective human-robot interaction (HRI) and collaboration. Over the past decade, deep learning has gained traction in this field, with most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Farida Mohsen , Ali Safa

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) use brain signals such as electroencephalography to reflect user intention and enable two-way communication between computers and users. BCI technology has recently received much attention in healthcare…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Byoung-Hee Kwon , Ji-Hoon Jeong , Seong-Whan Lee

Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

A neuroscience method to understanding the brain is to find and study the preferred stimuli that highly activate an individual cell or groups of cells. Recent advances in machine learning enable a family of methods to synthesize preferred…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Anh Nguyen , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune

Neural decoding, the process of understanding how brain activity corresponds to different stimuli, has been a primary objective in cognitive sciences. Over the past three decades, advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yanchen Wang , Adam Turnbull , Tiange Xiang , Yunlong Xu , Sa Zhou , Adnan Masoud , Shekoofeh Azizi , Feng Vankee Lin , Ehsan Adeli

Human activity understanding is crucial for building automatic intelligent system. With the help of deep learning, activity understanding has made huge progress recently. But some challenges such as imbalanced data distribution, action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yong-Lu Li , Liang Xu , Xinpeng Liu , Xijie Huang , Yue Xu , Mingyang Chen , Ze Ma , Shiyi Wang , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Artificial neural networks (ANNs), originally inspired by biological neural networks (BNNs), have achieved remarkable successes in many tasks such as visual representation learning. However, whether there exists semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Lin Zhao , Haixing Dai , Zihao Wu , Zhenxiang Xiao , Lu Zhang , David Weizhong Liu , Xintao Hu , Xi Jiang , Sheng Li , Dajiang Zhu , Tianming Liu

Brain decoding is a field of computational neuroscience that uses measurable brain activity to infer mental states or internal representations of perceptual inputs. Therefore, we propose a novel approach to brain decoding that also relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Nicola Toschi

A standard approach in functional neuroimaging explores how a particular cognitive task activates a set of brain regions (one task-to-many regions mapping). Importantly though, the same neural system can be activated by inherently different…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-23 Romy Lorenz , Ricardo Pio Monti , Ines R. Violante , Christoforos Anagnostopoulos , Aldo A. Faisal , Giovanni Montana , Robert Leech

When observing objects, humans benefit from their spatial visualization and mental rotation ability to envision potential optimal viewpoints based on the current observation. This capability is crucial for enabling robots to achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiayi Wu , Xiaomin Lin , Botao He , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

A core component of human intelligence is the ability to identify abstract patterns inherent in complex, high-dimensional perceptual data, as exemplified by visual reasoning tasks such as Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM). Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Taylor Webb , Jonathan D. Cohen

Building on existing approaches, we revisit Human-in-the-Loop Object Retrieval, a task that consists of iteratively retrieving images containing objects of a class-of-interest, specified by a user-provided query. Starting from a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Kawtar Zaher , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

Recent achievements in implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) have demonstrated the potential to decode cognitive and motor behaviors with intracranial brain recordings; however, individual physiological and electrode implantation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Di Wu , Linghao Bu , Yifei Jia , Lu Cao , Siyuan Li , Siyu Chen , Yueqian Zhou , Sheng Fan , Wenjie Ren , Dengchang Wu , Kang Wang , Yue Zhang , Yuehui Ma , Jie Yang , Mohamad Sawan

The growing interest in brain-inspired computational models arises from the remarkable problem-solving efficiency of the human brain. Action recognition, a complex task in computational neuroscience, has received significant attention due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alireza Nadafian , Milad Mozafari , Timothée Masquelier , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

Research has shown that neurons within the brain are selective to certain stimuli. For example, the fusiform face area (FFA) region is known by neuroscientists to selectively activate when people see faces over non-face objects. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Edward Kim , Maryam Daniali , Jocelyn Rego , Garrett T. Kenyon

The study of the visual system of the brain has attracted the attention and interest of many neuro-scientists, that derived computational models of some types of neuron that compose it. These findings inspired researchers in image…

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