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Aligning image and text encoders from scratch using contrastive learning requires large amounts of paired image-text data. We alleviate this need by aligning individually pre-trained language and vision representation models using a much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Tejas Srinivasan , Xiang Ren , Jesse Thomason

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

Deep learning is leading to major advances in the realm of brain decoding from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). However, the large inter-subject variability in brain characteristics has limited most studies to train models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alexis Thual , Yohann Benchetrit , Felix Geilert , Jérémy Rapin , Iurii Makarov , Hubert Banville , Jean-Rémi King

Zero-shot scene understanding in real-world settings presents major challenges due to the complexity and variability of natural scenes, where models must recognize new objects, actions, and contexts without prior labeled examples. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Manjunath Prasad Holenarasipura Rajiv , B. M. Vidyavathi

A deep neural network has been successfully applied to an electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interface. However, in most studies, the correlation between EEG channels and inter-region relationships are not well utilized,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Hyung-Ju Ahn , Dae-Hyeok Lee

Recent work shows that documents from encyclopedias serve as helpful auxiliary information for zero-shot learning. Existing methods align the entire semantics of a document with corresponding images to transfer knowledge. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xiangyan Qu , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Jiamin Zhuang , Yuanmin Tang , Gang Xiong , Gaopeng Gou , Qi Wu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with visual arithmetic, seemingly simple capabilities like object counting or length comparison, which are essential for relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Can Qin , Haoyi Qiu , Philippe Laban , Shafiq Joty , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space, yet the semantic organization of this space is rarely inspected. We present a post-hoc framework…

Brain Signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG), and human languages have been widely explored independently for many downstream tasks, however, the connection between them has not been well explored. In this study, we explore the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-07 William Han , Jielin Qiu , Jiacheng Zhu , Mengdi Xu , Douglas Weber , Bo Li , Ding Zhao

Visual neural decoding from EEG has improved significantly due to diffusion models that can reconstruct high-quality images from decoded latents. While recent works have focused on relatively complex architectures to achieve good…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Teng Fei , Srinivas Ravishankar , Zhining Chen , Abhinav Uppal , Ian Jackson , Virginia R. de Sa

The development of EEG decoding algorithms confronts challenges such as data sparsity, subject variability, and the need for precise annotations, all of which are vital for advancing brain-computer interfaces and enhancing the diagnosis of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Zirui Wang , Zhenxi Song , Yi Guo , Yuxin Liu , Guoyang Xu , Min Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang

The perception of color is an important cognitive feature of the human brain. The variety of colors that impinge upon the human eye can trigger changes in brain activity which can be captured using electroencephalography (EEG). In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mahima Chaudhary , Sumona Mukhopadhyay , Marin Litoiu , Lauren E Sergio , Meaghan S Adams

Understanding the neural mechanisms behind auditory and linguistic processing is key to advancing cognitive neuroscience. In this study, we use Magnetoencephalography (MEG) data to analyze brain responses to spoken language stimuli. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-08 Matteo Ciferri , Matteo Ferrante , Nicola Toschi

Brain decoding is a data analysis paradigm for neuroimaging experiments that is based on predicting the stimulus presented to the subject from the concurrent brain activity. In order to make inference at the group level, a straightforward…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-17 Emanuele Olivetti , Seyed Mostafa Kia , Paolo Avesani

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Researchers have reported high decoding accuracy (>95%) using non-invasive Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals for brain-computer interface (BCI) decoding tasks like image decoding, emotion recognition, auditory spatial attention detection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Xiran Xu , Bo Wang , Boda Xiao , Yadong Niu , Yiwen Wang , Xihong Wu , Jing Chen

Non-invasive decoding of imagined speech remains challenging due to weak, distributed signals and limited labeled data. Our paper introduces an image-based approach that transforms magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals into time-frequency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Soufiane Jhilal , Stéphanie Martin , Anne-Lise Giraud

Hypothesis. Artificial general intelligence is, at its core, a compression problem. Effective compression demands resonance: deep learning scales best when its architecture aligns with the fundamental structure of the data. These are the…

MEEDAV is an open-source web-based application for the synchronised visualisation of electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking, and audio data collected in psycholinguistic research. While originally developed for the Eyetracked…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jan Pijálek , Karel Vlk , Ondřej Bojar

Contrastive pre-training on image-text pairs, exemplified by CLIP, becomes a standard technique for learning multi-modal visual-language representations. Although CLIP has demonstrated remarkable performance, training it from scratch on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jihao Liu , Jinliang Zheng , Boxiao Liu , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li