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Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modelin (arxiv.org)
1 point by todsacerdoti on Nov 28, 2022 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It learns to read brain scans by hiding parts of the signal and guessing them, then turns that into pictures by refining noise, needing few scan-image pairs. Its images matched the shown picture's category 66% better than the previous best, and quality rose 41%.

Abstract · Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding

Decoding visual stimuli from brain recordings aims to deepen our understanding of the human visual system and build a solid foundation for bridging human and computer vision through the Brain-Computer Interface. However, reconstructing high-quality images with correct semantics from brain recordings is a challenging problem due to the complex underlying representations of brain signals and the scarcity of data annotations. In this work, we present MinD-Vis: Sparse Masked Brain Modeling with Double-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Model for Human Vision Decoding. Firstly, we learn an effective self-supervised representation of fMRI data using mask modeling in a large latent space inspired by the sparse coding of information in the primary visual cortex. Then by augmenting a latent diffusion model with double-conditioning, we show that MinD-Vis can reconstruct highly plausible images with semantically matching details from brain recordings using very few paired annotations. We benchmarked our model qualitatively and quantitatively; the experimental results indicate that our method outperformed state-of-the-art in both semantic mapping (100-way semantic classification) and generation quality (FID) by 66% and 41% respectively. An exhaustive ablation study was also conducted to analyze our framework.

Zijiao Chen, Jiaxin Qing, Tiange Xiang, Wan Lin Yue, Juan Helen Zhou
arXiv:2211.06956 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 13, 2022 · updated Mar 29, 2023
abstract · pdf · html · 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted by CVPR2023, see https://mind-vis.github.io/ for more information

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