Weihao Xia1,
Raoul de Charette2,
Cengiz Öztireli3,
Jing-Hao Xue1
1UCL
2Inria
3University of Cambridge
In this work we present DREAM, an fMRI-to-image method for reconstructing viewed images from brain activities, grounded on fundamental knowledge of the human visual system. We craft reverse pathways that emulate the hierarchical and parallel nature of how humans perceive the visual world. These tailored pathways are specialized to decipher semantics, color, and depth cues from fMRI data, mirroring the forward pathways from visual stimuli to fMRI recordings. To do so, two components mimic the inverse processes within the human visual system: the Reverse Visual Association Cortex (R-VAC) which reverses pathways of this brain region, extracting semantics from fMRI data; the Reverse Parallel PKM (R-PKM) component simultaneously predicting color and depth from fMRI signals. The experiments indicate that our method outperforms the current state-of-the-art models in terms of the consistency of appearance, structure, and semantics.
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