Auditory attention detection (AAD) from electroencephalography (EEG) signals has garnered significant interest for its potential in brain-computer interfaces and hearing aids. Nevertheless, accurate decoding remains challenging due to the high-dimensional, non-stationary, and inherently noisy characteristics of EEG signals. We introduce SSAAD, a novel self-supervised approach for binary AAD with three key innovations: (1) A multi-scale temporal-frequency graph convolutional network (MST-GCN) is developed to effectively capture both spatial and temporal EEG dynamics; (2) A hierarchical self-supervised contrastive learning method is designed to cultivate robust EEG representations without extensive labeled data; (3) A bespoke triple-stage mixup data augmentation strategy is proposed to enhance model generalization. Additionally, MST-GCN initialization is achieved via EEG autoencoder pre-training, facilitating superior feature extraction. The method's effectiveness is evaluated on the KUL and DTU datasets, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance with accuracy improvements of 1.4% and 1.7% for 0.1-second windows, respectively.

Despite recent progress in decoding static images from brain activity, reconstructing dynamic visual experiences from EEG signals remains challenging due to the complex temporal dynamics involved. Current approaches primarily rely on pre-trained video generation models while failing to fully leverage the rich temporal-spatial information embedded in EEG signals for video synthesis. This paper proposes MINDEV Multi-modal Integrated Neural DEcoding and Visualization), a framework that places EEG signal processing at the core of video reconstruction. We introduce three key technical contributions: (1) a dual-branch feature extractor that captures both temporal dynamics and spatial relationships in EEG signals, (2) an EEG-driven semantic bridge that uses neural patterns to guide language model interpretation, and (3) a multi-modal video synthesis pipeline where EEG features lead the generation process while semantic guidance provides refinement. Our framework prioritizes the millisecond-level temporal resolution of EEG signals, using them to drive both visual content generation and semantic understanding. Evaluated on the SEED-DV dataset, MINDEV demonstrates superior performance with a semantic classification accuracy of 93.2% and a structural similarity index (SSIM) of 0.4777, establishing a new state-of-the-art for EEG-based video reconstruction. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/HHarr1son/MINDEV.

Translating brain activity into meaningful visual content has long been recognized as a fundamental challenge in neuroscience and brain-computer interface research. Recent advances in EEG-based neural decoding have shown promise, yet two critical limitations remain in this area: poor generalization across subjects and constraints to specific visual tasks. We introduce NEED, the first unified framework achieving zero-shot cross-subject and cross-task generalization for EEG-based visual reconstruction. Our approach addresses three fundamental challenges: (1) cross-subject variability through an Individual Adaptation Module pretrained on multiple EEG datasets to normalize subject-specific patterns, (2) limited spatial resolution and complex temporal dynamics via a dual-pathway architecture capturing both low-level visual dynamics and high-level semantics, and (3) task specificity constraints through a unified inference mechanism adaptable to different visual domains. For video reconstruction, NEED achieves better performance than existing methods. Importantly, Our model maintains 93.7% of within-subject classification performance and 92.4% of visual reconstruction quality when generalizing to unseen subjects, while achieving an SSIM of 0.352 when transferring directly to static image reconstruction without fine-tuning, demonstrating how neural decoding can move beyond subject and task boundaries toward truly generalizable brain-computer interfaces.