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This paper proposes CAIA, a deep learning method that decodes EEG signals into images through zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval, combining adaptive visual blurring, a distribution-aware calibration loss, and spectral sparsity regularization. The reported gains are relative to prior methods on benchmark accuracy, so the key questions are how large the margins are and whether they hold across subjects and datasets. For ML readers, the practical takeaway is that matching input information density to the signal's granularity and filtering by frequency band may matter as much as the architecture itself.
Neural Visual Decoding via Cognitive guided Adaptive Blurring and Information Constrained Alignment
arXiv:2605.16418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: EEG-based visual decoding aims to establish a mapping between neural signals and visual semantics. However, it remains constrained by the dual challenges of severe information granularity mismatch and the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of EEG signals. Existing approaches typically treat visual features as static, ignoring the dynamic selectivity of human vision and the frequency specificity of neural oscillations. To bridge this gap, we propose CAIA, a Cognitive-guided Adaptive blurring with Information-Constrained Alignment framework for Neural-Visual decoding. On the visual side, it simulates selective attention to adaptively reduce redundancy. Meanwhile, on the EEG side, it combines neural oscillation priors with an information-bottleneck-inspired spectral sparsity regularizer to enhance SNR. Specifically, we devise a cognitive-dynamics-based adaptive blurring mechanism that dynamically integrates center-biased and saliency-guided visual cues via cross-modal attention. Furthermore, we introduce a distribution-aware boundary calibration loss to robustly rectify alignment bias caused by outlier samples. Moreover, a cognitively guided information-screening method is proposed to select task-relevant EEG oscillations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CAIA improves both subject-dependent and subject-independent average Top-1 and Top-5 accuracy in zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval, significantly outperforming prior methods. Our work validates that optimizing visual information density to match neural granularity offers a more interpretable and robust pathway for neural decoding.
Abstract:EEG-based visual decoding aims to establish a mapping between neural signals and visual semantics. However, it remains constrained by the dual challenges of severe information granularity mismatch and the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of EEG signals. Existing approaches typically treat visual features as static, ignoring the dynamic selectivity of human vision and the frequency specificity of neural oscillations. To bridge this gap, we propose CAIA, a Cognitive-guided Adaptive blurring with Information-Constrained Alignment framework for Neural-Visual decoding. On the visual side, it simulates selective attention to adaptively reduce redundancy. Meanwhile, on the EEG side, it combines neural oscillation priors with an information-bottleneck-inspired spectral sparsity regularizer to enhance SNR. Specifically, we devise a cognitive-dynamics-based adaptive blurring mechanism that dynamically integrates center-biased and saliency-guided visual cues via cross-modal attention. Furthermore, we introduce a distribution-aware boundary calibration loss to robustly rectify alignment bias caused by outlier samples. Moreover, a cognitively guided information-screening method is proposed to select task-relevant EEG oscillations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CAIA improves both subject-dependent and subject-independent average Top-1 and Top-5 accuracy in zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval, significantly outperforming prior methods. Our work validates that optimizing visual information density to match neural granularity offers a more interpretable and robust pathway for neural decoding.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2605.16418 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2605.16418v2 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.16418 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite
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