# MinD-3D++: Advancing fMRI-Based 3D Reconstruction with High-Quality Textured Mesh Generation and a Comprehensive Dataset

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11315 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.11315/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 38 of its 54 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 38)

- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09685/) (2021)
- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04079/) (2023)
- [Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.09748/) (2022)
- [ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03012/) (2015)
- [Learning Deep Features for Discriminative Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.04150/) (2015)
- [Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08051/) (2022)
- [Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11328/) (2023)
- [MaskGIT: Masked Generative Image Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.04200/) (2022)
- [Learning Implicit Fields for Generative Shape Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02822/) (2018)
- [DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.16653/) (2023)
- [LGM: Large Multi-View Gaussian Model for High-Resolution 3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.05054/) (2024)
- [InstantMesh: Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image with Sparse-view Large Reconstruction Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.07191/) (2024)
- [DISN: Deep Implicit Surface Network for High-quality Single-view 3D Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.10711/) (2019)
- [ImageDream: Image-Prompt Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02201/) (2023)
- [Scalable 3D Captioning with Pretrained Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07279/) (2023)
- [Reconstructing the Mind's Eye: fMRI-to-Image with Contrastive Learning and Diffusion Priors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18274/) (2023)
- [Seeing Beyond the Brain: Conditional Diffusion Model with Sparse Masked Modeling for Vision Decoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.06956/) (2022)
- [Generic decoding of seen and imagined objects using hierarchical visual features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1510.06479/) (2015)
- [PointGrow: Autoregressively Learned Point Cloud Generation with Self-Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.05591/) (2018)
- [Cinematic Mindscapes: High-quality Video Reconstruction from Brain Activity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11675/) (2023)
- [Towards Implicit Text-Guided 3D Shape Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14622/) (2022)
- [BOLD5000: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.01281/) (2018)
- [Neural Encoding and Decoding with Deep Learning for Dynamic Natural Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.03425/) (2016)
- [DreamReward: Text-to-3D Generation with Human Preference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14613/) (2024)
- [Reconstruction of Perceived Images from fMRI Patterns and Semantic Brain Exploration using Instance-Conditioned GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.12692/) (2022)
- [3D Shape Generation with Grid-based Implicit Functions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.10607/) (2021)

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- [Multigranular Evaluation for Brain Visual Decoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.07993/) (2025)
- [Bridging Brain and Semantics: A Hierarchical Framework for Semantically Enhanced fMRI-to-Video Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.14569/) (2026)
- [Modeling Spatiotemporal Neural Frames for High Resolution Brain Dynamic](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.24176/) (2026)
- [StableMind: Source-Free Cross-Subject fMRI Decoding with Regularized Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.02586/) (2026)
- [Mind2Cloud: EEG-to-Point Cloud Generation with Two-Granularity Diffusion Decoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.13991/) (2026)
- [FlatClip: Reusing Image Foundation Models for fMRI Representation Learning via Cortical Flatmaps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.31204/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Reconstructing 3D visuals from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data, introduced as Recon3DMind, is of significant interest to both cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. To advance this task, we present the fMRI-3D dataset, which includes data from 15 participants and showcases a total of 4,768 3D objects. The dataset consists of two components: fMRI-Shape, previously introduced and available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fudan-fMRI/fMRI-Shape, and fMRI-Objaverse, proposed in this paper and available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fudan-fMRI/fMRI-Objaverse. fMRI-Objaverse includes data from 5 subjects, 4 of whom are also part of the core set in fMRI-Shape. Each subject views 3,142 3D objects across 117 categories, all accompanied by text captions. This significantly enhances the diversity and potential applications of the dataset. Moreover, we propose MinD-3D++, a novel framework for decoding textured 3D visual information from fMRI signals. The framework evaluates the feasibility of not only reconstructing 3D objects from the human mind but also generating, for the first time, 3D textured meshes with detailed textures from fMRI data. We establish new benchmarks by designing metrics at the semantic, structural, and textured levels to evaluate model performance. Furthermore, we assess the model's effectiveness in out-of-distribution settings and analyze the attribution of the proposed 3D pari fMRI dataset in visual regions of interest (ROIs) in fMRI signals. Our experiments demonstrate that MinD-3D++ not only reconstructs 3D objects with high semantic and spatial accuracy but also provides deeper insights into how the human brain processes 3D visual information. Project page: https://jianxgao.github.io/MinD-3D.
