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Tag Images With Your Mind

Posted by samzenpus on from the typing-is-hard dept.

blee37 writes "Researchers at Microsoft have invented a system for tagging images by reading brain scans from an electroencephalograph (EEG). Tagging images is an important task because many images on the web are unlabeled and have no semantic information. This new method allows an appropriate tag to be generated by an AI algorithm interpreting the EEG scan of a person's brain while they view an image. The person need only view the image for as little as 500 ms. Other current methods for generating tags include flat out paying people to do it manually, putting the task on Amazon Mechanical Turk, or using Google Image Labeler."

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  1. Looks Good on Paper... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Honestly this is nice, but seriously if my mind was tagging my images there would be something like the following list of tags
    idhitit, awesome,ohgod, thehelliswrongwithme, whydidisavethisagain, ohthatswhy, shit, wallpaper, and photoshop
    and that's just keeping it within PG-13.