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Reconstructing visual stimuli from human brain activity (e.g., fMRI) bridges neuroscience and computer vision by decoding neural representations. However, existing methods often overlook critical brain structure-function relationships,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sijin Yu , Zijiao Chen , Wenxuan Wu , Shengxian Chen , Zhongliang Liu , Jingxin Nie , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Xin Zhang

Decoding visual content from fMRI signals recorded while a person views images, and specifically answering questions about the seen images, is a long-standing challenge. While significant progress has been made in recent years in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Roman Beliy , Matias Cosarinsky , Oliver Heinimann , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

Brain decoding is a key neuroscience field that reconstructs the visual stimuli from brain activity with fMRI, which helps illuminate how the brain represents the world. fMRI-to-image reconstruction has achieved impressive progress by…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-27 Guoying Sun , Weiyu Guo , Tong Shao , Yang Yang , Haijin Zeng , Jie Liu , Jingyong Su

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

In the past five years, the use of generative and foundational AI systems has greatly improved the decoding of brain activity. Visual perception, in particular, can now be decoded from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Yohann Benchetrit , Hubert Banville , Jean-Rémi King

Deciphering visual content from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) helps illuminate the human vision system. However, the scarcity of fMRI data and noise hamper brain decoding model performance. Previous approaches primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Yulong Liu , Yongqiang Ma , Guibo Zhu , Haodong Jing , Nanning Zheng

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

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

Visual encoding and decoding models act as gateways to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying human visual perception. Typically, visual encoding models that predict brain activity from stimuli and decoding models that reproduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Weijian Mai , Mu Nan , Yu Zhu , Jiahang Cao , Rui Zhang , Yuqin Dai , Chunfeng Song , Andrew F. Luo , Jiamin Wu

Decoding visual experiences from brain activity is a significant challenge. Existing fMRI-to-video methods often focus on semantic content while overlooking spatial and motion information. However, these aspects are all essential and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chong Li , Jingyang Huo , Weikang Gong , Yanwei Fu , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

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

In the pursuit to understand the intricacies of human brain's visual processing, reconstructing dynamic visual experiences from brain activities emerges as a challenging yet fascinating endeavor. While recent advancements have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Jingyuan Sun , Mingxiao Li , Zijiao Chen , Marie-Francine Moens

Recent achievements in implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) have demonstrated the potential to decode cognitive and motor behaviors with intracranial brain recordings; however, individual physiological and electrode implantation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-17 Di Wu , Linghao Bu , Yifei Jia , Lu Cao , Siyuan Li , Siyu Chen , Yueqian Zhou , Sheng Fan , Wenjie Ren , Dengchang Wu , Kang Wang , Yue Zhang , Yuehui Ma , Jie Yang , Mohamad Sawan

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi

Due to the low signal-to-noise ratio and limited resolution of functional MRI data, and the high complexity of natural images, reconstructing a visual stimulus from human brain fMRI measurements is a challenging task. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zijin Gu , Keith Jamison , Amy Kuceyeski , Mert Sabuncu

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 significant progress in the development of neural-symbolic frameworks, the question of how to integrate a neural and a symbolic system in a \emph{compositional} manner remains open. Our work seeks to fill this gap by treating these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Efthymia Tsamoura , Loizos Michael

Decoding brain functional states underlying different cognitive processes using multivariate pattern recognition techniques has attracted increasing interests in brain imaging studies. Promising performance has been achieved using brain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Hongming Li , Yong Fan

In this paper, we review recent approaches for explaining concepts in neural networks. Concepts can act as a natural link between learning and reasoning: once the concepts are identified that a neural learning system uses, one can integrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jae Hee Lee , Sergio Lanza , Stefan Wermter

We propose a novel denoising framework for task functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (tfMRI) data to delineate the high-resolution spatial pattern of the brain functional connectivity via dictionary learning and sparse coding (DLSC). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-24 Seongah Jeong , Xiang Li , Jiarui Yang , Quanzheng Li , Vahid Tarokh