no code implementations • 8 Sep 2022 • Adrien Doerig, Rowan Sommers, Katja Seeliger, Blake Richards, Jenann Ismael, Grace Lindsay, Konrad Kording, Talia Konkle, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Tim C. Kietzmann
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to model behavioral and neural data, an approach we call neuroconnectionism.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2020 • Gabriëlle Ras, Luca Ambrogioni, Pim Haselager, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Umut Güçlü
Finally, we implicitly demonstrate that, in popular ConvNets, the 2DConv can be replaced with a 3TConv and that the weights can be transferred to yield pretrained 3TConvs.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Nasir Ahmad, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Luca Ambrogioni
An alternative called target propagation proposes to solve this implausibility by using a top-down model of neural activity to convert an error at the output of a neural network into layer-wise and plausible 'targets' for every unit.
1 code implementation • 9 Mar 2020 • Nasir Ahmad, Luca Ambrogioni, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
We propose a solution to the weight transport problem, which questions the biological plausibility of the backpropagation algorithm.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2019 • Gabriëlle Ras, Ron Dotsch, Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
It is important that we understand the driving factors behind the predictions, in humans and in deep neural networks.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2019 • Gabriëlle Ras, Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
3D convolutional neural networks are difficult to train because they are parameter-expensive and data-hungry.
1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2019 • Max Hinne, David Leeftink, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Luca Ambrogioni
Quasi-experimental research designs, such as regression discontinuity and interrupted time series, allow for causal inference in the absence of a randomized controlled trial, at the cost of additional assumptions.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2019 • Sushrut Thorat, Giacomo Aldegheri, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Marius V. Peelen
In daily life situations, we have to perform multiple tasks given a visual stimulus, which requires task-relevant information to be transmitted through our visual system.
no code implementations • 31 Mar 2019 • Luca Ambrogioni, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Furthermore, we introduce a family of variance reduction techniques that can be applied to other gradient estimators.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Max Hinne, Eric Maris, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
This paper introduces Wasserstein variational inference, a new form of approximate Bayesian inference based on optimal transport theory.
no code implementations • 29 May 2018 • Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Julia Berezutskaya, Eva W. P. van den Borne, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Max Hinne, Eric Maris, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
In this paper, we introduce a new form of amortized variational inference by using the forward KL divergence in a joint-contrastive variational loss.
no code implementations • 21 Apr 2018 • Julio C. S. Jacques Junior, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Marc Pérez, Umut Güçlü, Carlos Andujar, Xavier Baró, Hugo Jair Escalante, Isabelle Guyon, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob Van Lier, Sergio Escalera
However, recently there has been an increasing interest from the computer vision community in analyzing personality from visual data.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2018 • Hugo Jair Escalante, Heysem Kaya, Albert Ali Salah, Sergio Escalera, Yagmur Gucluturk, Umut Guclu, Xavier Baro, Isabelle Guyon, Julio Jacques Junior, Meysam Madadi, Stephane Ayache, Evelyne Viegas, Furkan Gurpinar, Achmadnoer Sukma Wicaksana, Cynthia C. S. Liem, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob van Lier
Explainability and interpretability are two critical aspects of decision support systems.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2017 • Yağmur Güçlütürk, Umut Güçlü, Katja Seeliger, Sander Bosch, Rob Van Lier, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Here, we present a novel approach to solve the problem of reconstructing perceived stimuli from brain responses by combining probabilistic inference with deep learning.
1 code implementation • 19 May 2017 • Luca Ambrogioni, Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Eric Maris
In the Bayesian filtering example, we show that the method can be used to filter complex nonlinear and non-Gaussian signals defined on manifolds.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2017 • Umut Güçlü, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera, Xavier Baró, Jordi González, Rob Van Lier, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of related yet distinct advances in semantic segmentation.
1 code implementation • 16 Sep 2016 • Yağmur Güçlütürk, Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Rob Van Lier
Here, we develop an audiovisual deep residual network for multimodal apparent personality trait recognition.
2 code implementations • 9 Jun 2016 • Yağmur Güçlütürk, Umut Güçlü, Rob Van Lier, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
In this paper, we use deep neural networks for inverting face sketches to synthesize photorealistic face images.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2016 • Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Encoding models are used for predicting brain activity in response to sensory stimuli with the objective of elucidating how sensory information is represented in the brain.
Neurons and Cognition
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2016 • Umut Güçlü, Jordy Thielen, Michael Hanke, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
We developed task-optimized deep neural networks (DNNs) that achieved state-of-the-art performance in different evaluation scenarios for automatic music tagging.
Neurons and Cognition
no code implementations • 9 May 2016 • Luca Ambrogioni, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Eric Maris
Neural signals are characterized by rich temporal and spatiotemporal dynamics that reflect the organization of cortical networks.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2016 • Arno Solin, Pasi Jylänki, Jaakko Kauramäki, Tom Heskes, Marcel A. J. van Gerven, Simo Särkkä
We apply the method to both simulated and empirical data, and demonstrate the efficiency and generality of our Bayesian source reconstruction approach which subsumes various classical approaches in the literature.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2014 • Umut Güçlü, Marcel A. J. van Gerven
Converging evidence suggests that the mammalian ventral visual pathway encodes increasingly complex stimulus features in downstream areas.