The paper introduces NEAR, a neural-anchor-based retrieval framework that improves brain-to-image retrieval when only a few neural trials are available. By treating a high‑repetition center as an anchor, NEAR uses a denoiser to pull noisy queries toward the anchor and a small network to predict pseudo anchors for candidate images, thereby aligning both neural and visual representations. Experiments on EEG, MEG, and fMRI datasets show consistent gains, including a 5.7–9.3 percentage point improvement in 200‑way Top‑1 accuracy on THINGS‑EEG2 with only one or four repetitions.
By Zhenyao Cui, Siyuan Kan, Dingkun Liu, Dongrui Wu
arXiv:2607. 12364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG-to-image evaluation should distinguish visual fidelity from recoverable meaning.
By Sukriti Tiwari, BHVSP Subrahmanyam, Nidhi Goyal, Sai Amrit Patnaik
The paper presents a reproducible single‑subject baseline for reconstructing visual stimuli from EEG using a temporal‑spatial convolutional encoder that maps averaged EEG signals to 512‑dimensional ViT-B/32 image features. On the THINGS‑EEG2 dataset, the model achieves 12.83%, 39.17%, and 58.00% image recall at ranks 1, 5, and 10, respectively, outperforming analytical chance levels. The study also shows that performance drops sharply when applying a model trained on one subject to others, and that direct conditional generators without external visual weights produce noise‑dominated outputs, indicating that only coarse semantic decoding is feasible under the tested protocol.
By Harshit Goyal
arXiv:2607. 03094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) decoding for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) faces a major challenge: substantial inter-subject variability limits effective cross-subject generalization.
By Aymen Sarhane, Fouad Lbakali, Mouad Souissi, Jonathan Lys, Giulia Lioi
ProCA: Progressive Contrastive Alignment for Robust EEG Visual Decoding introduces a model‑agnostic framework that adaptively aligns EEG signals with visual semantics. It replaces fixed visual or textual anchors with EEG‑aware class‑level contrastive supervision and employs structure‑consistent interpolation to preserve channel‑wise and temporal importance. Across multiple evaluation settings—including subject‑dependent, subject‑independent, strict cross‑subject transfer, and continual adaptation—ProCA delivers significant performance gains, achieving relative Top‑1 improvements ranging from 7.4% to 28.1%.
By Kanglei Zhou, Chunyan Lan, Dongyang Li, Jun Zhu, Liyuan Wang
arXiv:2608. 13072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) decoding models often generalize poorly across datasets and subjects due to domain shifts in acquisition protocols and individual neurophysiology.
By Shuailei Zhang, Muyun Jiang, Wei Zhang, Jinbo Chen, Zhiwei Guo, Yong Li, Yi Ding, Cuntai Guan
The paper introduces NEAR, a neural‑anchor‑based retrieval framework that improves brain‑to‑image retrieval when only a few neural trials are available. By treating the high‑repetition center as an anchor, a denoiser pulls noisy queries toward it while a small network predicts pseudo anchors for candidate images, aligning both neural and visual representations. Across EEG, MEG, and fMRI datasets, NEAR consistently boosts retrieval accuracy, notably raising 200‑way Top‑1 accuracy on THINGS‑EEG2 by 5.7–9.3 percentage points with just one to four repetitions.
The paper introduces an adaptive cortically constrained method for aligning EEG signals with visual representations in zero‑shot brain‑to‑image retrieval. It reconstructs EEG into ROI‑level source patterns, encodes them with a Neuro‑ROI Attention Encoder, and applies evidence‑based adaptive visual supervision to account for response‑wise variability. On the THINGS‑EEG dataset, the approach achieves strong 200‑way retrieval performance and offers ROI‑level attribution for interpretability.
By Ye Wang, Haokun Ren, Wei Wu, Guoyin Wang, Zhuliang Yu, Hong Yu, Ke Liu
arXiv:2607. 18344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG-based visual decoding provides a non-invasive pathway for interpreting visual semantics.
By Yiheng Liu, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong, Jingtao Liu, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu
arXiv:2606. 16462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-subject EEG decoding promises more training data, but it also exposes neural networks to strong inter-subject distribution shifts.
By Bruna J. Lopes, Gabriel Schwartz, Sylvain Chevallier, Raphael Y. de Camargo, Bruno Aristimunha
arXiv:2607. 18344v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: EEG-based visual decoding provides a non-invasive pathway for interpreting visual semantics.
By Yiheng Liu, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong, Jingtao Liu, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu
arXiv:2608.24597v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is a widely used window into human brain function, but most EEG models remain tied to a one-dataset-one-model supervised...
By Yulong Dou, Han Wu, Guo Chen, Fangmao Ju, Zhiming Cui, Dinggang Shen