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Neuroscience studies have revealed that the brain encodes visual content and embeds information in neural activity. Recently, deep learning techniques have facilitated attempts to address visual reconstructions by mapping brain activity to…

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Semantic information is vital for human interaction, and decoding it from brain activity enables non-invasive clinical augmentative and alternative communication. While there has been significant progress in reconstructing visual images,…

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Reconstructing dynamic visual experiences as videos from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is pivotal for advancing the understanding of neural processes. However, current fMRI-to-video reconstruction methods are hindered by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yujie Wei , Chenglong Ma , Jianxiong Gao , Chenhui Wang , Shiwei Zhang , Biao Gong , Shuai Tan , Hangjie Yuan , Hongming Shan

Decoding images from fMRI often involves mapping brain activity to CLIP's final semantic layer. To capture finer visual details, many approaches add a parameter-intensive VAE-based pipeline. However, these approaches overlook rich object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Tian Xia , Zihan Ma , Xinlong Wang , Qing Liu , Xiaowei He , Tianming Liu , Yudan Ren

Recent advances in fMRI-based image reconstruction have achieved remarkable photo-realistic fidelity. Yet, a persistent limitation remains: while reconstructed images often appear naturalistic and holistically similar to the target stimuli,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Lan Yang , Minghan Yang , Ke Li , Honggang Zhang , Kaiyue Pang , Yi-Zhe Song

This paper studies the brave new idea for Multimedia community, and proposes a novel framework to convert dreams into coherent video narratives using fMRI data. Essentially, dreams have intrigued humanity for centuries, offering glimpses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yanwei Fu , Jianxiong Gao , Baofeng Yang , Jianfeng Feng

Deep learning is leading to major advances in the realm of brain decoding from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). However, the large inter-subject variability in brain characteristics has limited most studies to train models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alexis Thual , Yohann Benchetrit , Felix Geilert , Jérémy Rapin , Iurii Makarov , Hubert Banville , Jean-Rémi King

Human brain activity is often measured using the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signals obtained through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The strength of connectivity between brain regions is then measured as a Pearson…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-20 Moo K. Chung , Zijian Chen

Decoding language from the human brain remains a grand challenge for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). Current approaches typically rely on unimodal brain representations, neglecting the brain's inherently multimodal processing. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chunyu Ye , Yunhao Zhang , Jingyuan Sun , Chong Li , Chengqing Zong , Shaonan Wang

Reconstructing natural images from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data remains a core challenge in natural decoding due to the mismatch between the richness of visual stimuli and the noisy, low resolution nature of fMRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Junliang Ye , Lei Wang , Md Zakir Hossain

This work introduces a novel approach to fMRI-based visual image reconstruction using a subject-agnostic common representation space. We show that the brain signals of the subjects can be aligned in this common space during training to form…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Christos Zangos , Danish Ebadulla , Thomas Christopher Sprague , Ambuj Singh

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

Aggregating multi-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is indispensable for generating valid and general inferences from patterns distributed across human brains. The disparities in anatomical structures and functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Weida Li , Mingxia Liu , Fang Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Reconstruction of static visual stimuli from non-invasion brain activity fMRI achieves great success, owning to advanced deep learning models such as CLIP and Stable Diffusion. However, the research on fMRI-to-video reconstruction remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Zixuan Gong , Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Zhongwei Wan , Duoqian Miao , Shoujin Wang , Lei Zhu , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Liang Hu , Ke Liu , Yu Zhang

An unprecedented amount of existing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data provides a new opportunity to understand the relationship between functional fluctuation and human cognition/behavior using a data-driven approach. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jiaqi Ding , Tingting Dan , Ziquan Wei , Hyuna Cho , Paul J. Laurienti , Won Hwa Kim , Guorong Wu

Decoding visual experiences from human brain activity remains a central challenge at the intersection of neuroscience, neuroimaging, and artificial intelligence. A critical obstacle is the inherent variability of cortical responses: neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jingyang Huo , Yikai Wang , Yanwei Fu , Jianfeng Feng

Surface-based analysis of the cerebral cortex is ubiquitous in human neuroimaging with MRI. It is crucial for cortical registration, parcellation, and thickness estimation. Traditionally, these analyses require high-resolution, isotropic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Karthik Gopinath , Douglas N. Greve , Colin Magdamo , Steve Arnold , Sudeshna Das , Oula Puonti , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Decoding visual experiences from fMRI offers a powerful avenue to understand human perception and develop advanced brain-computer interfaces. However, current progress often prioritizes maximizing reconstruction fidelity while overlooking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yuxiang Wei , Yanteng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Vince D. Calhoun

The release of large datasets and developments in AI have led to dramatic improvements in decoding methods that reconstruct seen images from human brain activity. We evaluate the prospect of further improving recent decoding methods by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-14 Reese Kneeland , Jordyn Ojeda , Ghislain St-Yves , Thomas Naselaris

In recent years, the rapid development of neuroimaging technology has been providing many powerful tools for cognitive neuroscience research. Among them, the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which has high spatial resolution,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Yang Wang , Dongrui Wu