EEGaze：基于 EEG 显著性精炼的视觉搜索多模态注意力预测

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Abstract:Visual search is ubiquitous in daily life, from locating keys in a messy apartment to finding a tool in a cluttered workshop or an application icon on a desktop screen. While visual attention is to a large extent driven by image content, research in psychology indicates that user cognitive states have a significant influence on attention allocation. A promising way to access information about cognitive states is via Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. Despite this potential, previous works in computational attention modeling have largely disregarded EEG, and related studies in psychology operate with abstract, simplistic stimuli, or even artificially guided search procedures. We bridge this gap with two contributions. First, we present EEGaze 140, the largest publicly available multimodal dataset of free visual search with realistic stimuli. The dataset contains synchronized EEG and eye tracking recordings from 36 participants across 140 naturalistic scenes, covering two scenarios: searching for desktop icons and finding tools in cluttered workshop scenes. Second, we introduce EEGazeNet, the first method for human attention prediction in visual search that integrates EEG signals. Our approach consists of a EEG guided refinement stage that adapts the output of a state of the art saliency prediction method to the user current cognitive state. In comprehensive evaluations on EEGaze 140, we show that EEGazeNet consistently outperforms all baselines and ablation conditions.

Subjects:	Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multimedia (cs.MM)
Cite as:	arXiv:2610.35757 [cs.HC]
	(or arXiv:2610.35757v1 [cs.HC] for this version)
	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.35757 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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From: Mansi Sharma [view email]
[v1] Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:04:04 UTC (16,907 KB)