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Reconstructing perceived faces from brain activations with deep adversarial neural decoding

Neural Information Processing Systems

Here, we present a novel approach to solve the problem of reconstructing perceived stimuli from brain responses by combining probabilistic inference with deep learning. Our approach first inverts the linear transformation from latent features to brain responses with maximum a posteriori estimation and then inverts the nonlinear transformation from perceived stimuli to latent features with adversarial training of convolutional neural networks. We test our approach with a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment and show that it can generate state-of-the-art reconstructions of perceived faces from brain activations.


A Statistical Recurrent Model on the Manifold of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

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In a number of disciplines, the data (e.g., graphs, manifolds) to be analyzed are non-Euclidean in nature. Geometric deep learning corresponds to techniques that generalize deep neural network models to such non-Euclidean spaces. Several recent papers have shown how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be extended to learn with graph-based data. In this work, we study the setting where the data (or measurements) are ordered, longitudinal or temporal in nature and live on a Riemannian manifold -- this setting is common in a variety of problems in statistical machine learning, vision and medical imaging. We show how recurrent statistical recurrent network models can be defined in such spaces. We give an efficient algorithm and conduct a rigorous analysis of its statistical properties. We perform extensive numerical experiments demonstrating competitive performance with state of the art methods but with significantly less number of parameters. We also show applications to a statistical analysis task in brain imaging, a regime where deep neural network models have only been utilized in limited ways.


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Neural Information Processing Systems

Inthis supplemental material, wefirst present thedetailed networkarchitecture andparameters of the proposed approach in Sec. A. We further provide more analysis of the proposed method and ablation studies in Sec. B. Section C shows some qualitative results for potential applications of the proposed approach on medical imaging and imaging in astronomy. Figure 6: Illustration of learned deep features.(a) The blurry input and ground truth are shown in Figure 1(a)-(b). However, on may actually wonder whether the feature extraction network acts as a denoiser, leading to the observed robustness of the proposed method to various noise levels.