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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

Convolutional neural network (CNN) driven by image recognition has been shown to be able to explain cortical responses to static pictures at ventral-stream areas. Here, we further showed that such CNN could reliably predict and decode…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-15 Haiguang Wen , Junxing Shi , Yizhen Zhang , Kun-Han Lu , Jiayue Cao , Zhongming Liu

Visual reconstruction algorithms are an interpretive tool that map brain activity to pixels. Past reconstruction algorithms employed brute-force search through a massive library to select candidate images that, when passed through an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-03 Reese Kneeland , Jordyn Ojeda , Ghislain St-Yves , Thomas Naselaris

Concept-selective regions within the human cerebral cortex exhibit significant activation in response to specific visual stimuli associated with particular concepts. Precisely localizing these regions stands as a crucial long-term goal in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Zhuojia Wu , Duoqian Miao

Unveiling visual semantics from neural signals such as EEG, MEG, and fMRI remains a fundamental challenge due to subject variability and the entangled nature of visual features. Existing approaches primarily align neural activity directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zehui Feng , Chenqi Zhang , Mingru Wang , Minuo Wei , Shiwei Cheng , Cuntai Guan , Ting Han

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…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-01-16 Francois G. Meyer , Greg J. Stephens

Brain signal visualization has emerged as an active research area, serving as a critical interface between the human visual system and computer vision models. Although diffusion models have shown promise in analyzing functional magnetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Bohan Zeng , Shanglin Li , Xuhui Liu , Sicheng Gao , Xiaolong Jiang , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Jianzhuang Liu , Baochang Zhang

Visual decoding of neurophysiological signals is a critical challenge for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and computational neuroscience. However, current approaches are often constrained by the systematic and stochastic gaps between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Feixue Shao , Guangze Shi , Xueyu Liu , Yongfei Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jianan Zhang , Jianbo Lu , Guiying Yan , Weihua Yang

Integration between biology and information science benefits both fields. Many related models have been proposed, such as computational visual cognition models, computational motor control models, integrations of both and so on. In general,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Peijie Yin , Hong Qiao , Wei Wu , Lu Qi , YinLin Li , Shanlin Zhong , Bo Zhang

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.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-10 Weikang Qiu , Zheng Huang , Haoyu Hu , Aosong Feng , Yujun Yan , Rex Ying

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…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-12 Timo I. Denk , Yu Takagi , Takuya Matsuyama , Andrea Agostinelli , Tomoya Nakai , Christian Frank , Shinji Nishimoto

Existing evaluation protocols for brain visual decoding predominantly rely on coarse metrics that obscure inter-model differences, lack neuroscientific foundation, and fail to capture fine-grained visual distinctions. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Weihao Xia , Cengiz Oztireli

Brain decoding is a popular multivariate approach for hypothesis testing in neuroimaging. It is well known that the brain maps derived from weights of linear classifiers are hard to interpret because of high correlations between predictors,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-30 Seyed Mostafa Kia

It is a mystery how the brain decodes color vision purely from the optic nerve signals it receives, with a core inferential challenge being how it disentangles internal perception with the correct color dimensionality from the unknown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Atsunobu Kotani , Ren Ng

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

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

Extensive literature has drawn comparisons between recordings of biological neurons in the brain and deep neural networks. This comparative analysis aims to advance and interpret deep neural networks and enhance our understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Mai Gamal , Mohamed Rashad , Eman Ehab , Seif Eldawlatly , Mennatullah Siam

Brain encoder models predict cortical fMRI responses from the internal activations of pretrained vision and language networks, and are typically evaluated by held-out prediction accuracy. This is a useful signal for training but a poor one…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Stuart Bladon , Brinnae Bent

The human brain is a complex, dynamic network, which is commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and modeled as network of Regions of interest (ROIs) for understanding various brain functions. Recent studies…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-26 Yifan Yang , Yutong Mao , Xufu Liu , Xiao Liu

Non-invasive brainwave decoding is usually done using Magneto/Electroencephalography (MEG/EEG) sensor measurements as inputs. This makes combining datasets and building models with inductive biases difficult as most datasets use different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Yonatan Gideoni , Ryan Charles Timms , Oiwi Parker Jones