Summary of Mindformer: Semantic Alignment Of Multi-subject Fmri For Brain Decoding, by Inhwa Han et al.
MindFormer: Semantic Alignment of Multi-Subject fMRI for Brain Decoding
by Inhwa Han, Jaayeon Lee, Jong Chul Ye
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to visual decoding from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals is introduced, addressing current limitations in multi-subject brain decoding. The MindFormer model generates fMRI-conditioned feature vectors for conditioning Stable Diffusion and large language models for image and text generation, respectively. Key innovations include a subject-specific token capturing individual differences while combining data across subjects, and an IP-Adapter-based feature embedding scheme extracting semantically meaningful features from fMRI signals. Experimental results demonstrate semantically consistent images and text across different subjects, surpassing existing models in multi-subject brain decoding. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Brain scientists have been trying to figure out how to read brain signals from fMRI scans. This is hard because every person’s brain works a little differently. To solve this problem, researchers created a new way to combine brain signals from many people into one model that can generate images or words based on those signals. This new approach uses something called MindFormer and it’s really good at making sure the generated images and words make sense across different people. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Embedding * Text generation * Token
