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The human visual system is capable of processing continuous streams of visual information, but how the brain encodes and retrieves recent visual memories during continuous visual processing remains unexplored. This study investigates the…

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The development of algorithms to accurately decode neural information has long been a research focus in the field of neuroscience. Brain decoding typically involves training machine learning models to map neural data onto a preestablished…

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

Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. A field-wide goal is to achieve…

Purpose: To investigate whether a vision-language foundation model can enhance undersampled MRI reconstruction by providing high-level contextual information beyond conventional priors. Methods: We proposed a semantic distribution-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruimin Feng , Xingxin He , Ronald Mercer , Zachary Stewart , Fang Liu

Reconstructing perceived natural images from fMRI signals is one of the most engaging topics of neural decoding research. Prior studies had success in reconstructing either the low-level image features or the semantic/high-level aspects,…

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The process of reconstructing experiences from human brain activity offers a unique lens into how the brain interprets and represents the world. In this paper, we introduce a method for reconstructing music from brain activity, captured…

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A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to decode mental states from brain activity. While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) offers a non-invasive approach to capture brain-wide neural dynamics with high spatial precision,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Yueh-Po Peng , Vincent K. M. Cheung , Li Su

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

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In neural decoding research, one of the most intriguing topics is the reconstruction of perceived natural images based on fMRI signals. Previous studies have succeeded in re-creating different aspects of the visuals, such as low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Furkan Ozcelik , Rufin VanRullen

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…

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Decoding natural visual scenes from brain activity has flourished, with extensive research in single-subject tasks and, however, less in cross-subject tasks. Reconstructing high-quality images in cross-subject tasks is a challenging problem…

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides dynamical access into the complex functioning of the human brain, detailing the hemodynamic activity of thousands of voxels during hundreds of sequential time points. One approach…

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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

Current AI frameworks for brain decoding and encoding, typically train and test models within the same datasets. This limits their utility for brain computer interfaces (BCI) or neurofeedback, for which it would be useful to pool…

Both masked image modeling (MIM) and natural language supervision have facilitated the progress of transferable visual pre-training. In this work, we seek the synergy between two paradigms and study the emerging properties when MIM meets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shusheng Yang , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Dian Li , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Xinggang Wang

Functional MRI (fMRI) is a powerful technique that has allowed us to characterize visual cortex responses to stimuli, yet such experiments are by nature constructed based on a priori hypotheses, limited to the set of images presented to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Zijin Gu , Keith W. Jamison , Meenakshi Khosla , Emily J. Allen , Yihan Wu , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick Kay , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Navve Wasserman , Matias Cosarinsky , Yuval Golbari , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham , Michal Irani

Previous studies have shown that it is possible to map brain activation data of subjects viewing images onto the feature representation space of not only vision models (modality-specific decoding) but also language models (cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mitja Nikolaus , Milad Mozafari , Nicholas Asher , Leila Reddy , Rufin VanRullen

Decoding functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals into text has been a key challenge in the neuroscience community, with the potential to advance brain-computer interfaces and uncover deeper insights into brain mechanisms.…

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