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DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System
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."
[...] allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest.
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Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Suprise: I thought that the human visual systems is way superior to the existing computational image-processing systems. But I guess this technology switch directions as well, switching the roles and using human brain as co-processors in surveillance and security applications. Any volunteers for this?
"and hunting down replicants."
Hey, they are only guilty of DNA copyright infringement! It's not like it's an actual crime, bud!
Where were you when the voynix came?
Not only do you not have to press the button but you can look at the data ten-times as fast. Imagine this scenario: You're a Homeland Security Goon at the airport and the boys in the NSA have provided you with the face of a terrorist that may be walking around the airport. You memorize the picture of the guy, put on your nifty EEG space helmet, and tap into the face recognition system camera database at the airport. You then sift through thousands of photos in mere minutes. Human recognition works FASTER than human consciousness and therefore can identify the images before you even 'know' it. The EEG can detect the signals of your brain recognizing images and when it gets a 'hit', it dumps that image them into a cache for closer review at a later time. Think about it... banks of people in a windowless office with EEG helmets on pouring over pictures from every corner of the globe looking for whomever. Fascinating and scary at the same time...
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
Replicants is a reference to Blade Runner. A move by Ridley Scott.
The IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
The move is based on the work of Phillip K. Dick. It also stars Harrison Ford in his least favorite role.
So, basically completely the opposite to the /. description, to whit:
.I picked that up within 5 seconds of clicking the link. Sort it out, editors.
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How soon until we get distributed-image-glancing teams together, racking up spare brain cycles for high scores and bragging rights?
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Even better, we could breed people specifically to serve this purpose. We could have a whole class of people created in test tubes, deprived of meaningful human contact and trained just to look at thousands of images per minute, all day every day. With banks and banks of these people, we could create a human powered "supercomputer" capable of identifying any person on earth in mere seconds!
Note: This is currently a fictional scenario, but in one hundred years when this is actually going on, someone will stumble upon this post and realize how very forward-thinking I was...
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