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Brain encoding and decoding aims to understand the relationship between external stimuli and brain activities, and is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. In this article, we study latent embedding alignment for brain encoding and…

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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

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

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…

Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, object recognition models still lag behind in emulating visual information processing in human brains. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of using neural data to mimic brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zitong Lu , Yile Wang , Julie D. Golomb

Self-supervised audio-visual source separation leverages natural correlations between audio and vision modalities to separate mixed audio signals. In this work, we first systematically analyse the performance of existing multimodal fusion…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Han Hu , Dongheng Lin , Qiming Huang , Yuqi Hou , Hyung Jin Chang , Jianbo Jiao

Background: Building visual encoding models to accurately predict visual responses is a central challenge for current vision-based brain-machine interface techniques. To achieve high prediction accuracy on neural signals, visual encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Chi Zhang , Kai Qiao , Linyuan Wang , Li Tong , Guoen Hu , Ruyuan Zhang , Bin Yan

Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

While significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have catalyzed progress across various domains, its full potential in understanding visual perception remains underexplored. We propose an artificial neural network dubbed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ruixing Liang , Xiangyu Zhang , Qiong Li , Lai Wei , Hexin Liu , Avisha Kumar , Kelley M. Kempski Leadingham , Joshua Punnoose , Leibny Paola Garcia , Amir Manbachi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging produces high dimensional data, with a less then ideal number of labelled samples for brain decoding tasks (predicting brain states). In this study, we propose a new deep temporal convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Orhan Firat , Emre Aksan , Ilke Oztekin , Fatos T. Yarman Vural

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

We address prevailing challenges of the brain-powered research, departing from the observation that the literature hardly recover accurate spatial information and require subject-specific models. To address these challenges, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Weihao Xia , Raoul de Charette , Cengiz Öztireli , Jing-Hao Xue

Understanding neural responses to visual stimuli remains challenging due to the inherent complexity of brain representations and the modality gap between neural data and visual inputs. Existing methods, mainly based on reducing neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weihang You , Hanqi Jiang , Yi Pan , Junhao Chen , Tianming Liu , Fei Dou

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.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiangtao Kong , Kexin Huang , Ping Li , Lei Zhang

Representation learning is the foundation of natural language processing (NLP). This work presents new methods to employ visual information as assistant signals to general NLP tasks. For each sentence, we first retrieve a flexible number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zhuosheng Zhang , Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Zuchao Li , Hai Zhao

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

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)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zheng Huang , Enpei Zhang , Weikang Qiu , Yinghao Cai , Carl Yang , Elynn Chen , Xiang Zhang , Rex Ying , Dawei Zhou , Yujun Yan

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

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

Brain encoding models aim to predict brain voxel-wise responses to stimuli images, replicating brain signals captured by neuroimaging techniques. There is a large volume of publicly available data, but training a comprehensive brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Huzheng Yang , Jianbo Shi , James Gee