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DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the eharmony-should-get-right-on-this dept.

BluePariah writes "Wired News has an article on a 'cortically coupled computer vision' system being developed at Columbia University and funded by the ever-curious folks at DARPA. Essentially, it uses the extremely powerful visual recognition ability of the human brain and couples it with a computer's raw processing power to allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest. This has applications in military intelligence, face-recognition, anti-terrorism, and hunting down replicants."

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  1. Monkeys banging on keyboards by krell · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "You will think a million monkeys are out there banging on keyboards."

    Those must be pretty small monkeys, in order to fit two of them on a keyboard to make love. Golden lion marmosets, I presume?

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    Where were you when the voynix came?
  2. Artificial vision for the blind? by paran0rmal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If this technology feeds a series of digital images directly into the brain, what would happen when connected to the brain of a blind person? Would the person, with time, be able to interpret the new information?

    I imagine if this is the case, then connecting it to a camera worn by the user can possibly allow the person to see again.