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Main Authors: Liu, Jingtao, Gong, Peiliang, Zheng, Chuhang, Liu, Yiheng, Zhu, Qi
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04680
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author Liu, Jingtao
Gong, Peiliang
Zheng, Chuhang
Liu, Yiheng
Zhu, Qi
author_facet Liu, Jingtao
Gong, Peiliang
Zheng, Chuhang
Liu, Yiheng
Zhu, Qi
contents EEG-based visual neural decoding aims to align neural responses with visual stimuli for tasks such as image retrieval. However, limited paired data and a fundamental mismatch between high-fidelity digital images and biological visual perception - distorted by retinotopic mapping and subject-specific neuroanatomy - severely impede cross-modal alignment. To address this, we propose MB2L, a Multi-Level Bidirectional Biomimetic Learning framework that incorporates structured physiological inductive biases into representation learning. Specifically, we propose Adaptive Blur with Visual Priors to mitigate perceptual-structural mismatch by reweighting visual inputs according to retinotopic priors. We further propose Biomimetic Visual Feature Extraction to learn multi-level visual representations consistent with hierarchical cortical processing, enhancing subject-invariant encoding. These modules are jointly optimized via Multi-level Bidirectional Contrastive Learning, which aligns EEG and visual features in a shared semantic space through bidirectional contrastive objectives. Experiments show MB2L achieves 80.5% Top-1 and 97.6% Top-5 accuracy on zero-shot EEG-to-image retrieval, significantly outperforming prior methods and demonstrating strong generalization across subjects and experimental settings.
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spellingShingle Multi-Level Bidirectional Biomimetic Learning for EEG-Based Visual Decoding
Liu, Jingtao
Gong, Peiliang
Zheng, Chuhang
Liu, Yiheng
Zhu, Qi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
EEG-based visual neural decoding aims to align neural responses with visual stimuli for tasks such as image retrieval. However, limited paired data and a fundamental mismatch between high-fidelity digital images and biological visual perception - distorted by retinotopic mapping and subject-specific neuroanatomy - severely impede cross-modal alignment. To address this, we propose MB2L, a Multi-Level Bidirectional Biomimetic Learning framework that incorporates structured physiological inductive biases into representation learning. Specifically, we propose Adaptive Blur with Visual Priors to mitigate perceptual-structural mismatch by reweighting visual inputs according to retinotopic priors. We further propose Biomimetic Visual Feature Extraction to learn multi-level visual representations consistent with hierarchical cortical processing, enhancing subject-invariant encoding. These modules are jointly optimized via Multi-level Bidirectional Contrastive Learning, which aligns EEG and visual features in a shared semantic space through bidirectional contrastive objectives. Experiments show MB2L achieves 80.5% Top-1 and 97.6% Top-5 accuracy on zero-shot EEG-to-image retrieval, significantly outperforming prior methods and demonstrating strong generalization across subjects and experimental settings.
title Multi-Level Bidirectional Biomimetic Learning for EEG-Based Visual Decoding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04680