Reconstructed object lionfish
  1. Viewing
  2. Decoding
  3. Reconstructed

Research Overview

    Key Results

    From a Brain Signal To A Finished Image In Three Steps

    Every image on this page was painted from EEG alone. The system never sees the photo the person was looking at.

    1. 01

      Look

      A person looks at an object while an EEG headset records their brain activity.

    2. 02

      Decode

      A spatio-temporal encoder reads the recording. Adaptive Identity Evolution then tunes it to the individual, so new users can be enrolled without retraining the model.

    3. 03

      Dream

      A diffusion transformer treats the brain signal and the image as one sequence and paints the picture from pure noise.

    Inside Mind-DiT

    Three modules take a user's raw EEG all the way to a generated image.

      What They Saw, Next To What Their Brain Painted

      These are held-out test images that Mind-DiT never saw during training. Each card turns from the photo the participant saw to the image Mind-DiT painted from their EEG.

      Now showing

      lionfish

      It isn't a perfect mind reader. Sometimes it paints a different object, but even those images come out clear and plausible, closer to an interpretation than to noise.

      Ahead Of Prior Methods On Both Benchmarks

      Average over all participants. Classification uses top-1 accuracy. Reconstruction uses two-way identification, where the generated image has to pick its true photo out of a pair.

      Acknowledgements

      U.S. National Science Foundation

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