cs.CVApr 9, 2026

Brain3D: EEG-to-3D Decoding of Visual Representations via Multimodal Reasoning

Authors: Emanuele Balloni, Emanuele Frontoni, Chiara Matti, Marina Paolanti, Roberto Pierdicca, Emiliano Santarnecchi

Organizations: Department of Civil Engineering Building and Architecture (DICEA), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, Ancona, 60131, Italy · Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, Via Don Minzoni 22A, Macerata, 62100, Italy · Horizon Intelligence Labs · Harvard Medical School (HMS), Precision Neuromodulation Program & Network Control Laboratory, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Horizon Intelligence Labs, Boston, MA, USA

Abstract

Decoding visual information from electroencephalography (EEG) has recently achieved promising results, primarily focusing on reconstructing two-dimensional (2D) images from brain activity. However, the reconstruction of three-dimensional (3D) representations remains largely unexplored. This limits the geometric understanding and reduces the applicability of neural decoding in different contexts. To address this gap, we propose Brain3D, a multimodal architecture for EEG-to-3D reconstruction based on EEG-to-image decoding. It progressively transforms neural representations into the 3D domain using geometry-aware generative reasoning. Our pipeline first produces visually grounded images from EEG signals, then employs a multimodal large language model to extract structured 3D-aware descriptions, which guide a diffusion-based generation stage whose outputs are finally converted into coherent 3D meshes via a single-image-to-3D model. By decomposing the problem into structured stages, the proposed approach avoids direct EEG-to-3D mappings and enables scalable brain-driven 3D generation. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation comparing the reconstructed 3D outputs against the original visual stimuli, assessing both semantic alignment and geometric fidelity. Experimental results demonstrate strong performance of the proposed architecture, achieving up to 85.4% 10-way Top-1 EEG decoding accuracy and 0.648 CLIPScore, supporting the feasibility of multimodal EEG-driven 3D reconstruction.

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