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In this work, we explore the decoding of mental imagery from subjects using their fMRI measurements. In order to achieve this decoding, we first created a mapping between a subject's fMRI signals elicited by the videos the subjects watched.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Arman Afrasiyabi , Erica Busch , Rahul Singh , Dhananjay Bhaskar , Laurent Caplette , Nicholas Turk-Browne , Smita Krishnaswamy

Decoding brain states from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is vital for advancing neuroscience and clinical applications. While traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches have made strides in leveraging the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Danial Jafarzadeh Jazi , Maryam Hajiesmaeili

Recent advances in neural decoding have enabled the reconstruction of visual experiences from brain activity, positioning fMRI-to-image reconstruction as a promising bridge between neuroscience and computer vision. However, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Haonan Wang , Jingyu Lu , Hongrui Li , Xiaomeng Li

Analogical Reasoning problems challenge both connectionist and symbolic AI systems as these entail a combination of background knowledge, reasoning and pattern recognition. While symbolic systems ingest explicit domain knowledge and perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vishwa Shah , Aditya Sharma , Gautam Shroff , Lovekesh Vig , Tirtharaj Dash , Ashwin Srinivasan

Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

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

Imitation learning is a popular method for teaching robots new behaviors. However, most existing methods focus on teaching short, isolated skills rather than long, multi-step tasks. To bridge this gap, imitation learning algorithms must not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Leon Keller , Daniel Tanneberg , Jan Peters

Stimulus decoding of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data with machine learning models has provided new insights about neural representational spaces and task-related dynamics. However, the scarcity of labelled (task-related)…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-17 Sean Paulsen , Lloyd May , Michael Casey

Structural and functional neuroimaging modalities provide complementary windows into brain organization: structural imaging characterizes neural tissue anatomy and microstructure, while functional imaging captures dynamic patterns of neural…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Sakul Mahat , Sharmistha Guha , Jessica Bernard

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Recently, leveraging big data in deep learning has led to significant performance improvements, as confirmed in applications like mental state decoding using fMRI data. However, fMRI datasets remain relatively small in scale, and the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Yuto Nishimura , Masataka Sawayama , Ayumu Yamashita , Hideki Nakayama , Kaoru Amano

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…

Multimodal functional neuroimaging enables systematic analysis of brain mechanisms and provides discriminative representations for brain-computer interface (BCI) decoding. However, its acquisition is constrained by high costs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Weiheng Yao , Xuhang Chen , Shuqiang Wang

Compositional spatio-temporal reasoning poses a significant challenge in the field of video question answering (VideoQA). Existing approaches struggle to establish effective symbolic reasoning structures, which are crucial for answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Lili Liang , Guanglu Sun , Jin Qiu , Lizhong Zhang

Understanding how the brain represents visual information is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience and artificial intelligence. While AI-driven decoding of neural data has provided insights into the human visual system, integrating…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dongyang Li , Haoyang Qin , Mingyang Wu , Chen Wei , Quanying Liu

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) based image reconstruction plays a pivotal role in decoding human perception, with applications in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces. While recent advancements in deep learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Weiyu Guo , Guoying Sun , JianXiang He , Tong Shao , Shaoguang Wang , Ziyang Chen , Meisheng Hong , Ying Sun , Hui Xiong

We present a neural-symbolic framework for observing the environment and continuously learning visual semantics and intuitive physics to reproduce them in an interactive simulation. The framework consists of five parts, a neural-symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Michael Kissner

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

Research efforts for visual decoding from fMRI signals have attracted considerable attention in research community. Still multi-subject fMRI decoding with one model has been considered intractable due to the drastic variations in fMRI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Inhwa Han , Jaayeon Lee , Jong Chul Ye

This article presents a concept-centric paradigm for building agents that can learn continually and reason flexibly. The concept-centric agent utilizes a vocabulary of neuro-symbolic concepts. These concepts, such as object, relation, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jiayuan Mao , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Jiajun Wu