Decoding fMRI Data into Captions using Prefix Language Modeling

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Main Authors: Shen, Vyacheslav, Kunanbayev, Kassymzhomart, Kim, Dae-Shik
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author Shen, Vyacheslav
Kunanbayev, Kassymzhomart
Kim, Dae-Shik
author_facet Shen, Vyacheslav
Kunanbayev, Kassymzhomart
Kim, Dae-Shik
contents With the advancements in Large Language and Latent Diffusion models, brain decoding has achieved remarkable results in recent years. The works on the NSD dataset, with stimuli images from the COCO dataset, leverage the embeddings from the CLIP model for image reconstruction and GIT for captioning. However, the current captioning approach introduces the challenge of potential data contamination given that the GIT model was trained on the COCO dataset. In this work, we present an alternative method for decoding brain signals into image captions by predicting a DINOv2 model's embedding of an image from the corresponding fMRI signal and then providing its [CLS] token as the prefix to the GPT-2 language model which decreases computational requirements considerably. Additionally, instead of commonly used Linear Regression, we explore 3D Convolutional Neural Network mapping of fMRI signals to image embedding space for better accounting positional information of voxels.
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spellingShingle Decoding fMRI Data into Captions using Prefix Language Modeling
Shen, Vyacheslav
Kunanbayev, Kassymzhomart
Kim, Dae-Shik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
With the advancements in Large Language and Latent Diffusion models, brain decoding has achieved remarkable results in recent years. The works on the NSD dataset, with stimuli images from the COCO dataset, leverage the embeddings from the CLIP model for image reconstruction and GIT for captioning. However, the current captioning approach introduces the challenge of potential data contamination given that the GIT model was trained on the COCO dataset. In this work, we present an alternative method for decoding brain signals into image captions by predicting a DINOv2 model's embedding of an image from the corresponding fMRI signal and then providing its [CLS] token as the prefix to the GPT-2 language model which decreases computational requirements considerably. Additionally, instead of commonly used Linear Regression, we explore 3D Convolutional Neural Network mapping of fMRI signals to image embedding space for better accounting positional information of voxels.
title Decoding fMRI Data into Captions using Prefix Language Modeling
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02570