COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Xuan-Bac, Serna-Aguilera, Manuel, Choudhary, Arabinda Kumar, Sinha, Pawan, Li, Xin, Luu, Khoa
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author Nguyen, Xuan-Bac
Serna-Aguilera, Manuel
Choudhary, Arabinda Kumar
Sinha, Pawan
Li, Xin
Luu, Khoa
author_facet Nguyen, Xuan-Bac
Serna-Aguilera, Manuel
Choudhary, Arabinda Kumar
Sinha, Pawan
Li, Xin
Luu, Khoa
contents Vision-Brain Understanding (VBU) aims to extract visual information perceived by humans from brain activity recorded through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Despite notable advancements in recent years, existing studies in VBU continue to face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where models lose knowledge from prior subjects as they adapt to new ones. Addressing continual learning in this field is, therefore, essential. This paper introduces a novel framework called Continual Learning for Vision-Brain (COBRA) to address continual learning in VBU. Our approach includes three novel modules: a Subject Commonality (SC) module, a Prompt-based Subject Specific (PSS) module, and a transformer-based module for fMRI, denoted as MRIFormer module. The SC module captures shared vision-brain patterns across subjects, preserving this knowledge as the model encounters new subjects, thereby reducing the impact of catastrophic forgetting. On the other hand, the PSS module learns unique vision-brain patterns specific to each subject. Finally, the MRIFormer module contains a transformer encoder and decoder that learns the fMRI features for VBU from common and specific patterns. In a continual learning setup, COBRA is trained in new PSS and MRIFormer modules for new subjects, leaving the modules of previous subjects unaffected. As a result, COBRA effectively addresses catastrophic forgetting and achieves state-of-the-art performance in both continual learning and vision-brain reconstruction tasks, surpassing previous methods.
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spellingShingle COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding
Nguyen, Xuan-Bac
Serna-Aguilera, Manuel
Choudhary, Arabinda Kumar
Sinha, Pawan
Li, Xin
Luu, Khoa
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Vision-Brain Understanding (VBU) aims to extract visual information perceived by humans from brain activity recorded through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Despite notable advancements in recent years, existing studies in VBU continue to face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where models lose knowledge from prior subjects as they adapt to new ones. Addressing continual learning in this field is, therefore, essential. This paper introduces a novel framework called Continual Learning for Vision-Brain (COBRA) to address continual learning in VBU. Our approach includes three novel modules: a Subject Commonality (SC) module, a Prompt-based Subject Specific (PSS) module, and a transformer-based module for fMRI, denoted as MRIFormer module. The SC module captures shared vision-brain patterns across subjects, preserving this knowledge as the model encounters new subjects, thereby reducing the impact of catastrophic forgetting. On the other hand, the PSS module learns unique vision-brain patterns specific to each subject. Finally, the MRIFormer module contains a transformer encoder and decoder that learns the fMRI features for VBU from common and specific patterns. In a continual learning setup, COBRA is trained in new PSS and MRIFormer modules for new subjects, leaving the modules of previous subjects unaffected. As a result, COBRA effectively addresses catastrophic forgetting and achieves state-of-the-art performance in both continual learning and vision-brain reconstruction tasks, surpassing previous methods.
title COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17475