Scores on benchmarks

Model rank shown below is with respect to all public models.
.109 average_vision rank 382
81 benchmarks
.109
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.173 neural_vision rank 376
38 benchmarks
.173
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.349 V1 rank 124
24 benchmarks
.349
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.307 Coggan2024_fMRI.V1-rdm v1 rank 12
.307
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.558 Marques2020 [reference] rank 324
22 benchmarks
.558
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.687 V1-orientation rank 317
7 benchmarks
.687
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.986 Marques2020_Ringach2002-or_selective v1 rank 79
.986
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.535 Marques2020_Ringach2002-circular_variance v1 rank 340
.535
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.553 Marques2020_Ringach2002-orth_pref_ratio v1 rank 313
.553
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.700 Marques2020_Ringach2002-cv_bandwidth_ratio v1 rank 289
.700
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.983 Marques2020_DeValois1982-pref_or v1 rank 41
.983
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.405 Marques2020_Ringach2002-opr_cv_diff v1 rank 336
.405
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.644 Marques2020_Ringach2002-or_bandwidth v1 rank 308
.644
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.668 V1-spatial_frequency rank 288
3 benchmarks
.668
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.503 Marques2020_DeValois1982-peak_sf v1 rank 309
.503
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.662 Marques2020_Schiller1976-sf_bandwidth v1 [reference] rank 283
.662
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.839 Marques2020_Schiller1976-sf_selective v1 [reference] rank 190
.839
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.232 V1-response_selectivity rank 343
4 benchmarks
.232
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.209 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-texture_selectivity v1 [reference] rank 334
.209
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.199 Marques2020_Ringach2002-modulation_ratio v1 rank 331
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.427 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-texture_variance_ratio v1 [reference] rank 338
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.094 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-texture_sparseness v1 [reference] rank 340
.094
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.528 V1-receptive_field_size rank 212
2 benchmarks
.528
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.666 Marques2020_Cavanaugh2002-grating_summation_field v1 [reference] rank 176
.666
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.390 Marques2020_Cavanaugh2002-surround_diameter v1 [reference] rank 226
.390
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.363 V1-surround_modulation rank 313
1 benchmark
.363
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.363 Marques2020_Cavanaugh2002-surround_suppression_index v1 [reference] rank 313
.363
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.746 V1-texture_modulation rank 63
2 benchmarks
.746
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.807 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-abs_texture_modulation_index v1 [reference] rank 52
.807
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.684 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-texture_modulation_index v1 [reference] rank 217
.684
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.682 V1-response_magnitude rank 313
3 benchmarks
.682
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.653 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-max_texture v1 [reference] rank 311
.653
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.689 Marques2020_Ringach2002-max_dc v1 rank 333
.689
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.705 Marques2020_FreemanZiemba2013-max_noise v1 [reference] rank 271
.705
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.183 FreemanZiemba2013.V1-pls v2 [reference] rank 413
.183
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recordings from 102 sites in V1
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.180 V2 rank 105
2 benchmarks
.180
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.097 Coggan2024_fMRI.V2-rdm v1 rank 72
.097
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.263 FreemanZiemba2013.V2-pls v2 [reference] rank 322
.263
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recordings from 103 sites in V2
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.108 V4 rank 394
5 benchmarks
.108
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.053 Coggan2024_fMRI.V4-rdm v1 rank 66
.053
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.224 SanghaviJozwik2020.V4-pls v1 [reference] rank 372
.224
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recordings from 50 sites in V4
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.083 SanghaviMurty2020.V4-pls v1 [reference] rank 376
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recordings from 46 sites in V4
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.179 MajajHong2015.V4-pls v3 [reference] rank 419
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recordings from 88 sites in V4
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.053 IT rank 422
7 benchmarks
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-0.007 Bracci2019.anteriorVTC-rdm v1 rank 445
-0.007
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.254 Coggan2024_fMRI.IT-rdm v1 rank 107
.254
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.122 MajajHong2015.IT-pls v3 [reference] rank 420
.122
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recordings from 168 sites in IT
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.045 behavior_vision rank 362
43 benchmarks
.045
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.198 Ferguson2024 [reference] rank 205
14 benchmarks
.198
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.517 Ferguson2024half-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 106
.517
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.437 Ferguson2024gray_hard-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 99
.437
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.509 Ferguson2024round_v-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 104
.509
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.317 Ferguson2024convergence-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 123
.317
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.346 Ferguson2024round_f-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 99
.346
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.138 Ferguson2024gray_easy-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 146
.138
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.507 Ferguson2024tilted_line-value_delta v1 [reference] rank 128
.507
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.022 Hebart2023-match v1 rank 213
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.142 Coggan2024_behavior-ConditionWiseAccuracySimilarity v1 rank 137
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How to use

from brainscore_vision import load_model
model = load_model("hmax")
model.start_task(...)
model.start_recording(...)
model.look_at(...)

Benchmarks bibtex

@inproceedings{santurkar2019computer,
    title={Computer Vision with a Single (Robust) Classifier},
    author={Shibani Santurkar and Dimitris Tsipras and Brandon Tran and Andrew Ilyas and Logan Engstrom and Aleksander Madry},
    booktitle={ArXiv preprint arXiv:1906.09453},
    year={2019}
}
        @article {Marques2021.03.01.433495,
	author = {Marques, Tiago and Schrimpf, Martin and DiCarlo, James J.},
	title = {Multi-scale hierarchical neural network models that bridge from single neurons in the primate primary visual cortex to object recognition behavior},
	elocation-id = {2021.03.01.433495},
	year = {2021},
	doi = {10.1101/2021.03.01.433495},
	publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
	abstract = {Primate visual object recognition relies on the representations in cortical areas at the top of the ventral stream that are computed by a complex, hierarchical network of neural populations. While recent work has created reasonably accurate image-computable hierarchical neural network models of those neural stages, those models do not yet bridge between the properties of individual neurons and the overall emergent behavior of the ventral stream. One reason we cannot yet do this is that individual artificial neurons in multi-stage models have not been shown to be functionally similar to individual biological neurons. Here, we took an important first step by building and evaluating hundreds of hierarchical neural network models in how well their artificial single neurons approximate macaque primary visual cortical (V1) neurons. We found that single neurons in certain models are surprisingly similar to their biological counterparts and that the distributions of single neuron properties, such as those related to orientation and spatial frequency tuning, approximately match those in macaque V1. Critically, we observed that hierarchical models with V1 stages that better match macaque V1 at the single neuron level are also more aligned with human object recognition behavior. Finally, we show that an optimized classical neuroscientific model of V1 is more functionally similar to primate V1 than all of the tested multi-stage models, suggesting room for further model improvements with tangible payoffs in closer alignment to human behavior. These results provide the first multi-stage, multi-scale models that allow our field to ask precisely how the specific properties of individual V1 neurons relate to recognition behavior.HighlightsImage-computable hierarchical neural network models can be naturally extended to create hierarchical {\textquotedblleft}brain models{\textquotedblright} that allow direct comparison with biological neural networks at multiple scales {\textendash} from single neurons, to population of neurons, to behavior.Single neurons in some of these hierarchical brain models are functionally similar to single neurons in macaque primate visual cortex (V1)Some hierarchical brain models have processing stages in which the entire distribution of artificial neuron properties closely matches the biological distributions of those same properties in macaque V1Hierarchical brain models whose V1 processing stages better match the macaque V1 stage also tend to be more aligned with human object recognition behavior at their output stageCompeting Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.},
	URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/08/13/2021.03.01.433495},
	eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/08/13/2021.03.01.433495.full.pdf},
	journal = {bioRxiv}
}
        @article{Schiller1976,
            author = {Schiller, P. H. and Finlay, B. L. and Volman, S. F.},
            doi = {10.1152/jn.1976.39.6.1352},
            issn = {0022-3077},
            journal = {Journal of neurophysiology},
            number = {6},
            pages = {1334--1351},
            pmid = {825624},
            title = {{Quantitative studies of single-cell properties in monkey striate cortex. III. Spatial Frequency}},
            url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/825624},
            volume = {39},
            year = {1976}
            }
        @article{Freeman2013,
            author = {Freeman, Jeremy and Ziemba, Corey M. and Heeger, David J. and Simoncelli, E. P. and Movshon, J. A.},
            doi = {10.1038/nn.3402},
            issn = {10976256},
            journal = {Nature Neuroscience},
            number = {7},
            pages = {974--981},
            pmid = {23685719},
            publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
            title = {{A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates}},
            url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3402},
            volume = {16},
            year = {2013}
            }
        @article{Cavanaugh2002,
            author = {Cavanaugh, James R. and Bair, Wyeth and Movshon, J. A.},
            doi = {10.1152/jn.00692.2001},
            isbn = {0022-3077 (Print) 0022-3077 (Linking)},
            issn = {0022-3077},
            journal = {Journal of Neurophysiology},
            mendeley-groups = {Benchmark effects/Done,Benchmark effects/*Surround Suppression},
            number = {5},
            pages = {2530--2546},
            pmid = {12424292},
            title = {{Nature and Interaction of Signals From the Receptive Field Center and Surround in Macaque V1 Neurons}},
            url = {http://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jn.00692.2001},
            volume = {88},
            year = {2002}
            }
        @Article{Freeman2013,
                author={Freeman, Jeremy
                and Ziemba, Corey M.
                and Heeger, David J.
                and Simoncelli, Eero P.
                and Movshon, J. Anthony},
                title={A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates},
                journal={Nature Neuroscience},
                year={2013},
                month={Jul},
                day={01},
                volume={16},
                number={7},
                pages={974-981},
                abstract={The authors examined neuronal responses in V1 and V2 to synthetic texture stimuli that replicate higher-order statistical dependencies found in natural images. V2, but not V1, responded differentially to these textures, in both macaque (single neurons) and human (fMRI). Human detection of naturalistic structure in the same images was predicted by V2 responses, suggesting a role for V2 in representing natural image structure.},
                issn={1546-1726},
                doi={10.1038/nn.3402},
                url={https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3402}
                }
        @misc{Sanghavi_Jozwik_DiCarlo_2021,
  title={SanghaviJozwik2020},
  url={osf.io/fhy36},
  DOI={10.17605/OSF.IO/FHY36},
  publisher={OSF},
  author={Sanghavi, Sachi and Jozwik, Kamila M and DiCarlo, James J},
  year={2021},
  month={Nov}
}
        @misc{Sanghavi_Murty_DiCarlo_2021,
  title={SanghaviMurty2020},
  url={osf.io/fchme},
  DOI={10.17605/OSF.IO/FCHME},
  publisher={OSF},
  author={Sanghavi, Sachi and Murty, N A R and DiCarlo, James J},
  year={2021},
  month={Nov}
}
        @article {Majaj13402,
            author = {Majaj, Najib J. and Hong, Ha and Solomon, Ethan A. and DiCarlo, James J.},
            title = {Simple Learned Weighted Sums of Inferior Temporal Neuronal Firing Rates Accurately Predict Human Core Object Recognition Performance},
            volume = {35},
            number = {39},
            pages = {13402--13418},
            year = {2015},
            doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5181-14.2015},
            publisher = {Society for Neuroscience},
            abstract = {To go beyond qualitative models of the biological substrate of object recognition, we ask: can a single ventral stream neuronal linking hypothesis quantitatively account for core object recognition performance over a broad range of tasks? We measured human performance in 64 object recognition tests using thousands of challenging images that explore shape similarity and identity preserving object variation. We then used multielectrode arrays to measure neuronal population responses to those same images in visual areas V4 and inferior temporal (IT) cortex of monkeys and simulated V1 population responses. We tested leading candidate linking hypotheses and control hypotheses, each postulating how ventral stream neuronal responses underlie object recognition behavior. Specifically, for each hypothesis, we computed the predicted performance on the 64 tests and compared it with the measured pattern of human performance. All tested hypotheses based on low- and mid-level visually evoked activity (pixels, V1, and V4) were very poor predictors of the human behavioral pattern. However, simple learned weighted sums of distributed average IT firing rates exactly predicted the behavioral pattern. More elaborate linking hypotheses relying on IT trial-by-trial correlational structure, finer IT temporal codes, or ones that strictly respect the known spatial substructures of IT ({	extquotedblleft}face patches{	extquotedblright}) did not improve predictive power. Although these results do not reject those more elaborate hypotheses, they suggest a simple, sufficient quantitative model: each object recognition task is learned from the spatially distributed mean firing rates (100 ms) of \~{}60,000 IT neurons and is executed as a simple weighted sum of those firing rates.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We sought to go beyond qualitative models of visual object recognition and determine whether a single neuronal linking hypothesis can quantitatively account for core object recognition behavior. To achieve this, we designed a database of images for evaluating object recognition performance. We used multielectrode arrays to characterize hundreds of neurons in the visual ventral stream of nonhuman primates and measured the object recognition performance of \>100 human observers. Remarkably, we found that simple learned weighted sums of firing rates of neurons in monkey inferior temporal (IT) cortex accurately predicted human performance. Although previous work led us to expect that IT would outperform V4, we were surprised by the quantitative precision with which simple IT-based linking hypotheses accounted for human behavior.},
            issn = {0270-6474},
            URL = {https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/39/13402},
            eprint = {https://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/39/13402.full.pdf},
            journal = {Journal of Neuroscience}}
        @misc{ferguson_ngo_lee_dicarlo_schrimpf_2024,
         title={How Well is Visual Search Asymmetry predicted by a Binary-Choice, Rapid, Accuracy-based Visual-search, Oddball-detection (BRAVO) task?},
         url={osf.io/5ba3n},
         DOI={10.17605/OSF.IO/5BA3N},
         publisher={OSF},
         author={Ferguson, Michael E, Jr and Ngo, Jerry and Lee, Michael and DiCarlo, James and Schrimpf, Martin},
         year={2024},
         month={Jun}
}
        

Layer Commitment

Region Layer
V1 c2_7
V2 c2_3
V4 c2_0
IT c2_2

Visual Angle

8 degrees