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
BrainBind is a framework that aligns synchronized EEG and fMRI recordings taken during long‑form naturalistic video viewing by mapping both modalities into frozen video embedding spaces, treating these spaces as common visual‑semantic references rather than literal neural codes. Experiments on the CineBrain dataset show that different system configurations yield distinct retrieval profiles, with Omni performing best on full candidate organization (MRR = 23.82, nDCG@10 = 25.31) and Joint‑Dual achieving the highest mean label‑aware R@1 (13.52%). The study highlights how repeated stimulus identity and narrative context influence retrieval performance across episode‑disjoint evaluations.
By Shixiao Wang, Rining Wu, Jian K. Liu
SCORE: Subject Coordinate Recovery for Label-Free Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval proposes a new framework that aligns EEG signals from different subjects into a common image space without requiring labeled calibration data. By training on source subjects and estimating an orthogonal transformation at deployment, SCORE recovers target EEG coordinates and selects reliable EEG-image landmarks through hubness-corrected matching. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art Top‑1/Top‑5 accuracy on two public benchmarks, outperforming existing baselines by significant margins.
By Zhenyao Cui, Siyuan Kan, Siyang Li, Ziwei Wang, Dongrui Wu
arXiv:2609.24136v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Brain-to-image retrieval seeks to identify the visual stimulus that elicited a non-invasive neural response. Candidate images are typically represented...
By Ye Wang, HaoKun Ren, Hong Yu, Ruirui Li, Xiao Li, Ke Liu, Wei Wu
NeuroBridge is a self‑supervised framework for EEG‑to‑image decoding that uses Cognitive Prior Augmentation (CPA) to introduce perceptual variability and a Shared Semantic Projector (SSP) to align EEG and image features in a shared semantic space. The method achieves significant gains over prior work, improving top‑1 accuracy by 12.3% and top‑5 accuracy by 10.2% on a 200‑way zero‑shot retrieval task in intra‑subject experiments. Extensive tests show the approach is robust, scalable, and effective for neural visual decoding.
By Wenjiang Zhang, Sifeng Wang, Yuwei Su, Xinyu Li, Chen Zhang, Suyu Zhong
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