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most citedBrain Diffusion for Visual Exploration: Cortical Discovery using Large Scale Generative Models

7 citations · 12 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Receptive-field-constrained stimulus optimization for human early and intermediate visual cortex

Junru Zhao, Hanfei Guo, Andrew Luo +1

An ongoing challenge in sensory neuroscience is to characterize the feature dimensions encoded by cortical populations. Recent approaches probe feature selectivity in a data-driven…

cs.CV2026

Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers

Hossein Adeli, Seoyoung Ahn, Andrew Luo +3

Vision foundation models trained with self-supervised objectives achieve strong performance across diverse tasks and exhibit emergent object segmentation properties. However, their…

cs.RO2026

Real-to-Sim for Highly Cluttered Environments via Physics-Consistent Inter-Object Reasoning

Tianyi Xiang, Jiahang Cao, Sikai Guo +3

Reconstructing physically valid 3D scenes from single-view observations is a prerequisite for bridging the gap between visual perception and robotic control. However, in scenarios…

q-bio.NC2025

In Silico Mapping of Visual Categorical Selectivity Across the Whole Brain

Ethan Hwang, Hossein Adeli, Wenxuan Guo +2

A fine-grained account of functional selectivity in the cortex is essential for understanding how visual information is processed and represented in the brain. Classical studies us…

cs.CV2025

Vision Transformers with Self-Distilled Registers

Yinjie Chen, Zipeng Yan, Chong Zhou +2

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the dominant architecture for visual processing tasks, demonstrating excellent scalability with increased training data and model size. H…

cs.LG2025

Meta-Learning an In-Context Transformer Model of Human Higher Visual Cortex

Muquan Yu, Mu Nan, Hossein Adeli +6

Understanding functional representations within higher visual cortex is a fundamental question in computational neuroscience. While artificial neural networks pretrained on large-s…

cs.CV2024

Brain Mapping with Dense Features: Grounding Cortical Semantic Selectivity in Natural Images With Vision Transformers

Andrew F. Luo, Jacob Yeung, Rushikesh Zawar +4

We introduce BrainSAIL, a method for linking neural selectivity with spatially distributed semantic visual concepts in natural scenes. BrainSAIL leverages recent advances in large-…

cs.RO2024

Disentangled Acoustic Fields For Multimodal Physical Scene Understanding

Jie Yin, Andrew Luo, Yilun Du +4

We study the problem of multimodal physical scene understanding, where an embodied agent needs to find fallen objects by inferring object properties, direction, and distance of an…

cs.CV2024

StableSemantics: A Synthetic Language-Vision Dataset of Semantic Representations in Naturalistic Images

Rushikesh Zawar, Shaurya Dewan, Andrew F. Luo +3

Understanding the semantics of visual scenes is a fundamental challenge in Computer Vision. A key aspect of this challenge is that objects sharing similar semantic meanings or func…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

DiffusionPID: Interpreting Diffusion via Partial Information Decomposition

Rushikesh Zawar, Shaurya Dewan, Prakanshul Saxena +3

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant progress in generating naturalistic images from textual inputs, and demonstrate the capacity to learn and represent complex vis…

q-bio.NC2024★ 1 cited

Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli

Jacob Yeung, Andrew F. Luo, Gabriel Sarch +3

While computer vision models have made incredible strides in static image recognition, they still do not match human performance in tasks that require the understanding of complex,…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

BrainSCUBA: Fine-Grained Natural Language Captions of Visual Cortex Selectivity

Andrew F. Luo, Margaret M. Henderson, Michael J. Tarr +1

Understanding the functional organization of higher visual cortex is a central focus in neuroscience. Past studies have primarily mapped the visual and semantic selectivity of neur…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

Brain Diffusion for Visual Exploration: Cortical Discovery using Large Scale Generative Models

Andrew F. Luo, Margaret M. Henderson, Leila Wehbe +1

A long standing goal in neuroscience has been to elucidate the functional organization of the brain. Within higher visual cortex, functional accounts have remained relatively coars…