EEGFaceSem: An EEG Benchmark with Paired Generative Latents for Semantic Visual Modeling
Jun Ma, Michiel M. Spapé, Keith M. Davis, Tuukka Ruotsalo
原文摘要
Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used to measure brain activity for brain-computer interface applications for its non-invasive nature and high temporal resolution. However, progress in modeling the neural responses to visual semantics has been limited by a reliance on fixed image collections that lack the fine-grained control needed to isolate fine-grained changes in visual features and their relation to perception. In this work, we present EEGFaceSem, a large-scale dataset pairing high-quality EEG with photorealistic face images synthesized from a generative model. We provide the generative latent vector for each stimulus, enabling research into the continuous mapping between a visual latent space and neural representations. Each participant's brain responses were recorded while they attended to specific semantic features (e.g., smiling, hair color) in a rapid serial visual presentation paradigm. The dataset contains EEG signals from 30 participants, totaling 67,200 time-locked EEG recordings. We present benchmarks for single-trial semantic classification under single-subject, cross-subject, and subject-adapted settings, as well as for cross-subject voting that aggregates per-stimulus predictions across participants. We further demonstrate the dataset's unique utility with two complementary applications: deriving semantic directions in the latent space for brain-supervised image editing, and conditioning a generative model on brain-decoded labels for brain-supervised image generation. Our dataset paves the way for advancing brain-computer interfaces (BCI) for semantic-level visual saliency detection and brain-supervised generative modeling. Our dataset and code are openly released at OSF (https://osf.io/2guk3/) and at HuggingFace https://huggingface.co/datasets/yefllower/EEGFaceSem.
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