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Understanding how the brain encodes visual information is a central challenge in neuroscience and machine learning. A promising approach is to reconstruct visual stimuli, essentially images, from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)…

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Decoding human visual neural representations is a challenging task with great scientific significance in revealing vision-processing mechanisms and developing brain-like intelligent machines. Most existing methods are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Changde Du , Kaicheng Fu , Jinpeng Li , Huiguang He

Every day, the human brain processes an immense volume of visual information, relying on intricate neural mechanisms to perceive and interpret these stimuli. Recent breakthroughs in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matteo Ferrante , Furkan Ozcelik , Tommaso Boccato , Rufin VanRullen , Nicola Toschi

Decoding visual information from human brain activity has seen remarkable advancements in recent research. However, the diversity in cortical parcellation and fMRI patterns across individuals has prompted the development of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Jialei Zhou , Wei Fan , Kun Yi , Usman Naseem , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao

Brain decoding, understood as the process of mapping brain activities to the stimuli that generated them, has been an active research area in the last years. In the case of language stimuli, recent studies have shown that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Nicolas Affolter , Beni Egressy , Damian Pascual , Roger Wattenhofer

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zixuan Gong , Qi Zhang , Guangyin Bao , Lei Zhu , Ke Liu , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao

Despite rapid advances in machine learning tools, the majority of neural decoding approaches still use traditional methods. Modern machine learning tools, which are versatile and easy to use, have the potential to significantly improve…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-06 Joshua I. Glaser , Ari S. Benjamin , Raeed H. Chowdhury , Matthew G. Perich , Lee E. Miller , Konrad P. Kording

Reconstructing visual stimulus images is a significant task in neural decoding, and up to now, most studies consider the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as the signal source. However, the fMRI-based image reconstruction methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Hongguang Pan , Zhuoyi Li , Yunpeng Fu , Xuebin Qin , Jianchen Hu

Decoding brain imaging data are gaining popularity, with applications in brain-computer interfaces and the study of neural representations. Decoding is typicallysubject-specific and does not generalise well over subjects, due to high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Richard Csaky , Mats Van Es , Oiwi Parker Jones , Mark Woolrich

Reconstructing visual stimulus (image) only from human brain activity measured with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a significant and meaningful task in Human-AI collaboration. However, the inconsistent distribution and…

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Understanding how external stimuli are encoded in distributed neural activity is of significant interest in clinical and basic neuroscience. To address this need, it is essential to develop analytical tools capable of handling limited data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Navid Ziaei , Reza Saadatifard , Ali Yousefi , Behzad Nazari , Sydney S. Cash , Angelique C. Paulk

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…

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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

Biological research has revealed that the verbal semantic information in the brain cortex, as an additional source, participates in nonverbal semantic tasks, such as visual encoding. However, previous visual encoding models did not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Shuxiao Ma , Linyuan Wang , Bin Yan

Achieving human-like memory recall in artificial systems remains a challenging frontier in computer vision. Humans demonstrate remarkable ability to recall images after a single exposure, even after being shown thousands of images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Virgile Foussereau , Robin Dumas

We consider the information transmission problem in neurons and its possible implications for learning in neural networks. Our approach is based on recent developments in statistical physics and complexity science. Combining sensory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Siddharth Kackar

A major hurdle to clinical translation of brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) is that current decoders, which are trained from a small quantity of recent data, become ineffective when neural recording conditions subsequently change. We tested…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-15 David Sussillo , Sergey D. Stavisky , Jonathan C. Kao , Stephen I. Ryu , Krishna V. Shenoy

Predicting brain activity in response to naturalistic, multimodal stimuli is a key challenge in computational neuroscience. While encoding models are becoming more powerful, their ability to generalize to truly novel contexts remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Hamid Abdollahi , Amir Hossein Mansouri Majoumerd , Amir Hossein Bagheri Baboukani , Amir Abolfazl Suratgar , Mohammad Bagher Menhaj

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.…

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