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Understanding how neural activity gives rise to perception is a central challenge in neuroscience. We address the problem of decoding visual information from high-density intracortical recordings in primates, using the THINGS Ventral Stream…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-19 Matteo Ciferri , Matteo Ferrante , Nicola Toschi

We present SEED (Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding), a novel metric for evaluating the semantic decoding performance of visual brain decoding models. It integrates three complementary metrics, each capturing a different aspect…

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This paper presents a novel approach towards creating a foundational model for aligning neural data and visual stimuli across multimodal representationsof brain activity by leveraging contrastive learning. We used electroencephalography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Grigorii Rashkov , Nicola Toschi

Reconstructing seeing images from fMRI recordings is an absorbing research area in neuroscience and provides a potential brain-reading technology. The challenge lies in that visual encoding in brain is highly complex and not fully revealed.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tao Fang , Yu Qi , Gang Pan

Decoding visual experience from brain signals offers exciting possibilities for neuroscience and interpretable AI. While EEG is accessible and temporally precise, its limitations in spatial detail hinder image reconstruction. Our model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Arshak Rezvani , Ali Akbari , Kosar Sanjar Arani , Maryam Mirian , Emad Arasteh , Martin J. McKeown

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity based on language representations has been actively studied in systems neuroscience. However, previous studies examined word-level representation, and little is known about whether we could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Eri Matsuo , Ichiro Kobayashi , Shinji Nishimoto , Satoshi Nishida , Hideki Asoh

We propose an end-to-end deep neural encoder-decoder model to encode and decode brain activity in response to naturalistic stimuli using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Leveraging temporally correlated input from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Florian David , Michael Chan , Elenor Morgenroth , Patrik Vuilleumier , Dimitri Van De Ville

Reconstructing images using brain signals of imagined visuals may provide an augmented vision to the disabled, leading to the advancement of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) technology. The recent progress in deep learning has boosted the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Prajwal Singh , Pankaj Pandey , Krishna Miyapuram , Shanmuganathan Raman

Vision encoders are increasingly used in modern applications, from vision-only models to multimodal systems such as vision-language models. Despite their remarkable success, it remains unclear how these architectures represent features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Eduard Allakhverdov , Dmitrii Tarasov , Elizaveta Goncharova , Andrey Kuznetsov

The increasing availability of image-text pairs has largely fueled the rapid advancement in vision-language foundation models. However, the vast scale of these datasets inevitably introduces significant variability in data quality, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Lei Zhang , Fangxun Shu , Tianyang Liu , Sucheng Ren , Hao Jiang , Cihang Xie

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

Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. This review traces the field's evolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yukiyasu Kamitani , Misato Tanaka , Ken Shirakawa

Interpreting human neural signals to decode static speech intentions such as text or images and dynamic speech intentions such as audio or video is showing great potential as an innovative communication tool. Human communication accompanies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ji-Ha Park , Seo-Hyun Lee , Soowon Kim , Seong-Whan Lee

The connection between brain activity and corresponding visual stimuli is crucial in comprehending the human brain. While deep generative models have exhibited advancement in recovering brain recordings by generating images conditioned on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xuelin Qian , Yikai Wang , Yanwei Fu , Xinwei Sun , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ananya Passi , Brian S. Robinson , Michael F. Bonner

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 representations from human brain activity has emerged as a thriving research domain, particularly in the context of brain-computer interfaces. Our study presents an innovative method that employs to classify and reconstruct…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Stefano Bargione , Nicola Toschi

Decoding continuous language from brain activity is a formidable yet promising field of research. It is particularly significant for aiding people with speech disabilities to communicate through brain signals. This field addresses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xinpei Zhao , Jingyuan Sun , Shaonan Wang , Jing Ye , Xiaohan Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Decoding the human brain has been a hallmark of neuroscientists and Artificial Intelligence researchers alike. Reconstruction of visual images from brain Electroencephalography (EEG) signals has garnered a lot of interest due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Prajwal Singh , Dwip Dalal , Gautam Vashishtha , Krishna Miyapuram , Shanmuganathan Raman

Encoding models have been used to assess how the human brain represents concepts in language and vision. While language and vision rely on similar concept representations, current encoding models are typically trained and tested on brain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jerry Tang , Meng Du , Vy A. Vo , Vasudev Lal , Alexander G. Huth