Four tasks · four generalization shifts

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Choose the task that fits your model. Each track has its own data, scientific question, evaluation metrics, leaderboard, and prize paths. All tracks use the same reproducibility audit. Then, register on Codabench and get prepared by running the start kits and reproducing baselines with NeuralBench.

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01

Cross-stimulus

EEG-to-IMG

Leaderboard

Visual decoding is most useful when it recognizes novel content rather than a fixed catalogue learned during training. Given a single EEG epoch recorded during natural-image viewing, identify the viewed image by ranking held-out candidates in a frozen DINOv2 embedding space. Training and test images do not overlap, so the cross-stimulus shift probes whether neural representations transfer beyond memorized concepts. Research-grade and consumer-grade datasets add source and hardware variability while keeping the task anchored to time-locked visual responses. Metric: Top-5 retrieval accuracy against the held-out candidate set, with higher scores indicating better performance.

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02

Cross-session

BCI decoding

Leaderboard

A practical BCI must remain reliable as the same user returns on different days without requiring a new calibration each time. Decode one of three cued mental commands: kinesthetic motor imagery, mental calculation, or word association. The longitudinal corpus follows participants across six sessions and varied Graz and BrainHero contexts. Models train on earlier labeled sessions and predict later sessions. This within-user, cross-session design isolates drift from time of day, electrode replacement, physiology, and mental strategy while preserving subject-specific calibration. Metric: Balanced accuracy averaged across subject, session, and context cells, with higher scores indicating better performance.

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03

Cross-user

Sleep onset

Leaderboard

Reliable sleep-onset estimates from lightweight home headbands could make longitudinal sleep monitoring less dependent on full laboratory polysomnography. Predict seconds remaining until the first stable N2 epoch from continuous four-channel wearable EEG collected at home. Models are evaluated on unseen sleepers, with night-to-night variation, motion artifacts, impedance changes, and channel dropout. The cross-user setting asks whether sleep-transition dynamics learned from other participants transfer to everyday recordings. It targets causal onset estimation rather than full hypnogram reconstruction, which is poorly supported by sparse wearable montages. Metric: Binned mean absolute error (bMAE) in seconds, averaged equally across four time-to-onset ranges so short and long latencies count equally, with lower scores indicating better performance.

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04

Cross-user

EMG-to-Pose

Leaderboard

Translating wrist muscle activity into hand motion is a core challenge for wearable control systems that must work beyond a calibrated laboratory setup. Predict trajectories of 20 hand-joint angles from 16-channel wrist sEMG recorded during everyday movement. Evaluation holds out users, movement stages, and user-stage combinations, testing robustness to anatomy, wristband placement, and kinematic context. This asks whether a wearable interface intended for daily, out-of-the-lab use can transfer to a new user without person-specific retraining. Metric: Mean absolute angular error across the predicted joint trajectories, reported in degrees, with lower scores indicating better performance.

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Track datasets · public seeds + exclusive 2026 releases

The data behind every track.

All competition datasets use BIDS. The datasets below are the recommended starting point for each track, combining curated public seeds with an exclusive 2026 release for development and held-out evaluation. For broader foundation-model pretraining, EEGDash provides 700+ additional EEG corpora through the same BIDS-first streaming interface.

Track 01 · exclusive 2026 release

Alljoined eval cohort

New 11-subject evaluation cohort recorded with the same Emotiv hardware and natural-images paradigm as the public Alljoined-1.6M corpus. Released by Alljoined.

Track 02 · exclusive 2026 release

Graz / BrainHero

20 subjects × 6 sessions, mixed Graz and BrainHero paradigms.

Track 03 · exclusive 2026 release

Muse wearable

~1,000-subject home-wearable EEG with n2_onset annotations.

Track 04 · exclusive 2026 release

EMG2Pose held-out split

Exclusive evaluation split derived from the 370-hour Salter2024 benchmark, pairing 16-channel wrist sEMG with 20 UmeTrack joint angles for held-out users.

Track Dataset Modality Subjects Hours Channels Sampling Size
Track 01 THINGS-EEG1things-eeg1 · Object viewing EEG 50 46h 63/128 1000 Hz 44 GB
Track 01 THINGS-EEG2things-eeg2 · Object viewing EEG 10 87h 63 1000 Hz 59 GB
Track 01 Alljoined-1alljoined-1 · Natural images EEG 8 - 64 512 Hz 4.4 GB
Track 01 Alljoined-1.6Malljoined-1.6 · Natural images EEG 20 130h 32 256 Hz 7.7 GB
Track 01 Alljoined eval 2026alljoined-eval · Alljoined-1.6M protocol EEG 11 - 32 250 Hz -
Track 02 Stieger 2021stieger2021 · Continuous MI EEG 62 615h 60 1000 Hz 399 GB
Track 02 Dreyer 2023dreyer2023 · Large MI cohort EEG 87 127h 27 512 Hz 19 GB
Track 02 Zyma 2019zyma2019 · Mental tasks EEG 36 2.4h 21 500 Hz 0.18 GB
Track 02 Scherer 2015scherer2015 · Individually tuned BCI EEG 9 14h 30 256 Hz 1.1 GB
Track 02 Graz / BrainHero 2026bci-graz · BCI command EEG 20 80h 64 500 Hz -
Track 03 Sleep-EDF Extendedsleepedf-ext EEG 100 3,849h 5/7 100 Hz 8.7 GB
Track 03 PhysioNet Challenge 2018physionet2018 EEG 1,983 15,261h 13 200 Hz 431 GB
Track 03 HMC Sleep Staginghmc-sleep EEG 151 1200h 4 256 Hz -
Track 03 Muse Sleep-Onset 2026muse-sleep · Wearable EEG EEG 1000+ 1000h+ 4 256 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2PoseSalter2024Emg2pose · Joint-angle regression EMG 193 370h 16 2000 Hz -
Track 04 EMG2Pose held-out split 2026emg2pose-test · Held-out users EMG held out - 16 2000 Hz -

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