The image, inspired by the story of Alan Turing cracking the Enigma Code during World War 2, depicts a brain gazing at an infinite space of faces. The 50 dials on the "face decoding machine ...

Electrocorticogram (ECoG) recordings were taken from 17 patients with epilepsy who had implanted subdural cortical electrodes related to visual perception. A decoder was trained to estimate the ...

But it is exactly directed to encoding and decoding. You take an image, create a code corresponding to that image (encode), and then use the code to reproduce the image (decode).