EEG-Based Visual Decoding

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EEG-based visual decoding asks what visual content a person has seen or imagined, ranging from choosing an image from a candidate set to reconstructing 2D or 3D scenes. Common approaches encode EEG’s temporal, spectral, and spatial patterns, then align them with pretrained vision or vision-language representations using contrastive learning; diffusion and other generative models can turn aligned signals into images. Evaluation often uses THINGS-EEG and THINGS-EEG2 for within-subject, cross-subject, and zero-shot retrieval, with newer tests probing fine-grained edits and dynamic perception. A central challenge is that noisy, person-specific signals can support semantic retrieval more reliably than faithful detail, so cross-subject generalization and evaluation of perceptual versus semantic fidelity remain open issues.

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  1. ProtoEEG: Structured Prototype Alignment for EEG Visual Decoding

    Oct 20, 2026Kieren Yu, Chang Huang, Ziyang Liu +1EEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

  2. Brain2Face: A Study on the Relation of EEG Signals and Spatio-temporal Head Avatars

    Oct 12, 2026Camilo Andrés Martínez Martínez, Olaf Dünkel, Kartik Teotia +3EEG-Based Visual DecodingEEG Decoding

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

  3. Replaying the Movie in Your Mind Decoding Dynamic Visual Perception and Recall from EEG

    Oct 9, 2026Zikai Fang, Tian-Yi Zhou, Xuan-Hao Liu +5EEG-Based Visual DecodingNeural Decoding

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  4. Structured Visual Target Learning For Cross-Subject eeg-to-image retrieval

    Sep 29, 2026Salini Yadav, Taveena Lotey, Mickaël Coustaty +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingVisual Representation Learning

    Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India · University of La Rochelle, France · Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  5. The Visual Target Matters: Learning across the Visual Hierarchy for Brain-to-Image Retrieval

    Sep 21, 2026Ye Wang, Haokun Ren, Hong Yu +4Visual Representation LearningEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China · Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China +1

  6. Adaptive Cortically Constrained EEG-Vision Alignment for Zero-Shot Brain-to-Image Retrieval

    Sep 21, 2026Ye Wang, Haokun Ren, Wei Wu +4ElectroencephalographyEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China · National Center for Applied Mathematics in Chongqing, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China +1

  7. RPA: Residual Patch-Token Adapter for Image Retrieval from EEG and MEG

    Sep 19, 2026Yuhui Jin, Yonghao Song, Bingchuan LiuCross-Subject EEG DecodingCross-Modal Representation Learning

    Vortek Lab Inc. · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology

  8. Brain-to-Image Generation: Reconstructing Visual Stimuli from EEG using Generative Adversarial Networks

    Sep 13, 2026Harshit GoyalEEG-Based Visual DecodingImage Reconstruction

    BITS Pilani, India

  9. Mind2Cloud: EEG-to-Point Cloud Generation with Two-Granularity Diffusion Decoding

    Sep 12, 2026Yongyi Lu, Xiongfeng Huang, Zhijing YangEEG-Based Visual DecodingPoint Cloud Generation

    Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  10. ProCA: Progressive Contrastive Alignment for Robust EEG Visual Decoding

    Sep 4, 2026Kanglei Zhou, Chunyan Lan, Dongyang Li +2EEG-Based Visual DecodingContrastive Learning

    Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute for AI, BNRist Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint Center for ML, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  11. EEG-VID: Task-Guided Latent Predictive Pretraining for EEG Decoding and Assistive Target Selection

    Sep 1, 2026Guanzhong Sun, Junyi Ma, Yuxuan Wu +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    School of Information and Control Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China +1

  12. SCORE: Subject Coordinate Recovery for Label-Free Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval

    Aug 19, 2026Zhenyao Cui, Siyuan Kan, Siyang Li +2Cross-Subject EEG DecodingEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  13. CORTIVA: Candidate-Score Fusion of Complementary Visual Teachers for EEG- and MEG-to-Image Retrieval

    Aug 2, 2026Junhan Wang, Kani ChenEEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  14. EEG-EditBench: Probing Visual Information in EEG-Image Retrieval Models with Controlled Image Edits

    Jul 30, 2026Kaifan Zhang, Lihuo He, Yuqi Ji +4EEG DecodingEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    School of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China · School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China

  15. FSDBN: Foreground-Aware EEG-Visual Alignment via Dynamic Brain Networks

    Jul 20, 2026Yiheng Liu, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong +3EEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China · The International Joint Institute of Tianjin University, Fuzhou, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  16. Lost in Visual Translation: A VLM-Assisted Perceptual-Semantic Coherence Framework for EEG-to-Image Reconstruction

    Jul 14, 2026Sukriti Tiwari, BHVSP Subrahmanyam, Nidhi Goyal +1VLM EvaluationEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India · MU-VT Interdisciplinary Advanced Research Centre for Transformative Technologies, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India · Avyakt Ehsaas

  17. What Does the Brain See? Multiview Neural Representations to Demystify the Brain-Visual Alignment

    Jun 24, 2026Salini Yadav, Taveena Lotey, Pravendra Singh +1Representation LearningEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    Department of CSE IIT Roorkee, India · Department of CSE IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  18. Dual-Stream EEG Decoding for 3D Visual Perception

    Jun 20, 2026Ninon Lizé Masclef, Taisija Demcenko, Antonella Catanzaro +1EEG-Based Visual DecodingVisual Neuroscience

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  19. SwitchBraidNet: Quantisation-Aware Lightweight Architecture for Hybrid Brain-Computer Interface

    Jun 17, 2026Gourav Siddhad, Yogesh Kumar MeenaEfficient Neural Network InferenceBrain-Computer Interfaces

    Human-AI Interaction (HAIx) Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382055, India

  20. SUP-MCRL: Subject-aware Unified Pseudo-feature Coded Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning for EEG Visual Decoding

    Jun 15, 2026Shengyu Gong, Weiming Zeng, Yueyang Li +4Cross-Subject EEG DecodingContrastive Learning

    Lab of Digital Image and Intelligent Computation, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China · Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China · Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Lianyungang 222002, China

  21. SYNAPSE: Neuro-Symbolic Visual Thought-to-Text Decoding via Topological Semantic Denoising

    May 27, 2026Akshaj Murhekar, Abhijit MishraLanguage Model DecodingEEG Decoding

    School of Information University of Texas at Austin

  22. MindAlign: Bridging EEG, Vision, and Language for Zero-Shot Visual Decoding

    May 23, 2026Zexuan Chen, Sichao Liu, Runhao Lu +4EEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

    KTH, SWeden · University of Cambridge, UK · EPFL, Switzerland +2

  23. STAMBRIDGE: Spectral-Temporal Amplitude-aware Mid-Feature Bridge for EEG Visual Decoding

    May 22, 2026Jiahe Meng, Weiming Zeng, Yueyang Li +5Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationRepresentation Learning

    Lab of Digital Image and Intelligent Computation, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China · Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Neurology, Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Lianyungang 222002, China +1

  24. Visualizing the Invisible: Generative Visual Grounding Empowers Universal EEG Understanding in MLLMs

    May 18, 2026Jun-Yu Pan, Yansen Wang, Enze Zhang +3EEG DecodingEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Microsoft Research Asia Shanghai, China

  25. Brain-to-Image Retrieval and Reconstruction via Multimodal EEG Alignment

    May 18, 2026Chi Kit Wong, Yan Liu, Haowen YanEEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

  26. Neuroscience-inspired Staged Representation Learning with Disentangled Coarse- and Fine-Grained Semantics for EEG Visual Decoding

    May 16, 2026Xiang Gao, Hui Tian, Yanming Zhu +2Disentangled Representation LearningCross-Modal Representation Learning

    School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, 4222, QLD, Australia

  27. Neural Visual Decoding via Cognitive guided Adaptive Blurring and Information Constrained Alignment

    May 14, 2026Fan Yin, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong +2EEG-Based Visual DecodingCross-Modal Alignment

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China · Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  28. Multi-Level Bidirectional Biomimetic Learning for EEG-Based Visual Decoding

    May 6, 2026Jingtao Liu, Peiliang Gong, Chuhang Zheng +2Visual Representation LearningEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China · Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  29. SIMON: Saliency-aware Integrative Multi-view Object-centric Neural Decoding

    May 1, 2026YuSheng Lin, Ji-Hwa Tsai, Chun-Shu WeiEEG-Based Visual DecodingMulti-View Learning

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  30. Structure-Guided Diffusion Model for EEG-Based Visual Cognition Reconstruction

    Apr 24, 2026Yongxiang Lian, Yueyang Cang, Pingge Hu +2Diffusion Model GuidanceEEG-Based Visual Decoding

    Department of Automation Tsinghua University Haidian District, 100084, Beijing, China · China Academy of Information and Communications Technology Haidian District, 100084, Beijing, China