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An electroencephalogram is an effective approach that provides a bidirectional pathway between user and computer in a non-invasive way. In this study, we adopted the visual perception data for training the visual imagery decoding network.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Byoung-Hee Kwon , Jeong-Hyun Cho , Byeong-Hoo Lee

Reconstructing perceived images from human brain activity monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is hard, especially for natural images. Existing methods often result in blurry and unintelligible reconstructions with low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mali Halac , Murat Isik , Hasan Ayaz , Anup Das

Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the most common method for investigating the human brain. However, fMRI data present some complications for statistical analysis and modeling. One recently developed approach to these data focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-19 Vincent Q. Vu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick N. Kay , Jack L. Gallant , Bin Yu

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

Humans judge perceptual similarity according to diverse visual attributes, including scene layout, subject location, and camera pose. Existing vision models understand a wide range of semantic abstractions but improperly weigh these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shobhita Sundaram , Stephanie Fu , Lukas Muttenthaler , Netanel Y. Tamir , Lucy Chai , Simon Kornblith , Trevor Darrell , Phillip Isola

Brain decoding is a key neuroscience field that reconstructs the visual stimuli from brain activity with fMRI, which helps illuminate how the brain represents the world. fMRI-to-image reconstruction has achieved impressive progress by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-27 Guoying Sun , Weiyu Guo , Tong Shao , Yang Yang , Haijin Zeng , Jie Liu , Jingyong Su

Brain decoding aims to reconstruct visual perception of human subject from fMRI signals, which is crucial for understanding brain's perception mechanisms. Existing methods are confined to the single-subject paradigm due to substantial brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Yuqin Dai , Zhouheng Yao , Chunfeng Song , Qihao Zheng , Weijian Mai , Kunyu Peng , Shuai Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Jian Yang , Jiamin Wu

Can artificial intelligence unlock the secrets of the human brain? How do the inner mechanisms of deep learning models relate to our neural circuits? Is it possible to enhance AI by tapping into the power of brain recordings? These…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Subba Reddy Oota , Zijiao Chen , Manish Gupta , Raju S. Bapi , Gael Jobard , Frederic Alexandre , Xavier Hinaut

We present a brain-to-image system that decodes visual stimuli from EEG signals recorded during natural image viewing. Our system addresses two tasks: (1) EEG-to-image retrieval, which ranks the correct stimulus image among 200 candidates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chi Kit Wong , Yan Liu , Haowen Yan

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

Artificial and biological systems may evolve similar computational solutions despite fundamental differences in architecture and learning mechanisms -- a form of convergent evolution. We demonstrate this phenomenon through large-scale…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-04 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yiting Dong , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Recent advances in brain-vision decoding have driven significant progress, reconstructing with high fidelity perceived visual stimuli from neural activity, e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), in the human visual cortex. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Le Xu , Qi Zhang , Qixian Zhang , Hongyun Zhang , Duoqian Miao , Cairong Zhao

Decoding neural representations of visual stimuli from electroencephalography (EEG) offers valuable insights into brain activity and cognition. Recent advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the field of visual decoding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Minsuk Choi , Hiroshi Ishikawa

Visual brain decoding aims to decode visual information from human brain activities. Despite the great progress, one critical limitation of current brain decoding research lies in the lack of generalization capability to unseen subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiangtao Kong , Kexin Huang , Ping Li , Lei Zhang

Previous brain decoding research primarily involves single-subject studies, reconstructing stimuli via fMRI activity from the same subject. Our study aims to introduce a generalization technique for cross-subject brain decoding, facilitated…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-06 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Nicola Toschi

Electroencephalography (EEG) signals, known for convenient non-invasive acquisition but low signal-to-noise ratio, have recently gained substantial attention due to the potential to decode natural images. This paper presents a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yonghao Song , Bingchuan Liu , Xiang Li , Nanlin Shi , Yijun Wang , Xiaorong Gao

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

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative approach for studying this information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Adrien Doerig , Tim C Kietzmann , Emily Allen , Yihan Wu , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick Kay , Ian Charest

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

Brain encoding and decoding aims to understand the relationship between external stimuli and brain activities, and is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. In this article, we study latent embedding alignment for brain encoding and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Shuoxun Xu , Zhanhao Yan , Lexin Li