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How To Index and Search a Video By Emotion
robotsrule writes "Here's a a demonstration video of EmoRate, a software program that uses the Emotiv 14-electrode EEG headset to record your emotions via your facial expressions. In the video you'll see EmoRate record my emotions while I watch a YouTube video, then index that video by emotion, and then navigate that video by simply by remembering a feeling. The web page for EmoRate explains how I used Emotiv's SDK to build the software program, and how I trained the system by watching emotionally evocative videos on YouTube while wearing the headset."
Wonder how this would perform for porn and porn + regular videos? Would you end up getting one category as the dominant selection?
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Brain-computer interface really taking up via to emos?
This is not the augmented / towards transhuman future I imagined...
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This sure will come in handy when I'm looking for GOOD porn! There is a God!!!!
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It would be interesting to run this a few times... not sequentially, but maybe once every few months to give yourself time to reset (for the lack of a better word), and rewatch whatever it was you recorded with this device and then diff the results to see if their was a drift, and in what area's. I have to assume you wouldn't always respond the same way, and the results could be highly interesting, perhaps even moreso to the field of psychiatry in allowing a more exact gauging of the effectiveness of whatever drug they are administering to a patient.
So the guy moves his face in accordance with his emotions and then, guess what, he can make the same gestures to go back to the place in the video where he previous made those gestures. Woot? If anything this only shows just how far off this sort of technology really is. Last I checked, I'm pretty sure I had more than 4 emotions... Am I missing something about how amazing this is?
Sorry for replying to myself. After a casual search I found it was naive of me to think EEG's weren't being used in psychiatry for a while now. Seems it is rather common place. Still, cool the tech is being used in new and more accessible ways.
If you want the raw EEG data, you have to buy emotiv's $10,000 SDK. I'll stick with my Neurosky headset for now.
Does it cut itself too?
What was his reaction to goatse videos? Actually, I think I'd rather not know. I'm sure such an experiment with a normal person would push the Emotiv beyond its capabilities.
I understand that there is a market for this in testing products, say video games, but who else would use this stuff? I just don't see this as being very commonly used. I would guess it is about as useful as a "lie detector", which doesn't do a very good job, and how many people have one of those in their home?
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It would be interesting to run this a few times... not sequentially, but maybe once every few months to give yourself time to reset (for the lack of a better word), and rewatch whatever it was you recorded with this device and then diff the results to see if their was a drift, and in what area's. I have to assume you wouldn't always respond the same way, and the results could be highly interesting, perhaps even moreso to the field of psychiatry in allowing a more exact gauging of the effectiveness of whatever drug they are administering to a patient.
I doubt you'd get nearly the same reactions. Things like boredom (reruns don't always get everyones attention) and (since these are static videos) predictability can and will cause detachment of your emotions and their intensity to what your watching. Think of things like horror movies, sure they can make you feel fear greatly during the first watch, but rarely can cause that much fear during the second viewing, let alone the third, forth, ect...
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His test video he's watching is Sintel which is a free, open source CG movie soon to be finished.
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can someone wake me up, when there is official youtube support, and the headset doesnt cost $299+tax
When I'm watching a video alone, I don't usually have facial expressions, unless something is insanely funny, or I've got into the scotch.
Who wants to bet the porn industry is the first to monetize this?
That's awesome. This would become very powerful once these results are amalgamated with millions of other viewers. It would also be a very effective way of improving search results because rather than simply clicking the close button, there could be feedback to say the results sucked. And combined with another technology, which results sucked.
I rememebr seeing a documentary about this technology on beyond2000 years ago. It's great to see that it has made it into the consumer world.
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Since you enjoyed the video "2girls1cup". EmoRate thinks you might also enjoy...
Seriously, the first time you hear a joke is much more effective then subsequent times. So how would you be able to find jokes then?
Now I have the perfect tool to fine tune my propaganda and advertising!
I can't say I see the benefit to this sort of system. My facial expression rarely changes throughout movies, unless I laugh over something funny or flinch due to a movie trying to scare me with a loud noise. I'm hardly alone; I showed the video to a few people and they had similar concerns.
I can't see myself giving off a heartwarming smile when I see something happy or frowning when I'm sad. At that point it seems like I'm merely trying to appease the technology to make it work, instead of just doing my natural thing and it picking up on that.
....make the software explode.
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while watching the demonstration video. The result is: 'meh'
I see a great market in helping guys understand women. The computer could watch her face and text him, "She's bored. Enough football talk." "She's getting upset. Stop talking about her mother." "Uh-oh. She didn't REALLY want to know if she looks fat." Could revolutionize relationships. Pam http://www.thebrewmag.com/
Pavlov's Orgasm Recall Navigation.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
... *that's* a really useful invention
<Watches 2 girls 1 cup> <EmoRate explodes>
Finally something I can use to easily sort my porn.
It kinda looks like an alien frog-man in some kind of B&D outfit, being "dominated". W. T. F.
There have been a couple of products like this out there on the market, with varying numbers and locations of sensors. Some of them are doing EEG type detection to try to see what your brain is doing, while others are mostly sensing facial muscles. It's hard to keep track of which products are which, especially when they're initially marketed toward gamers because they think that's a potential market.
If this is the one doing actual brain behaviour detection, and if the SDK weren't so expensive*, it'd be fun to use for things like neurofeedback experimentation. On the other hand, if it's yet another facial muscle detector, that's less interesting to me, but probably easier to program to do useful things for gamers.
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Unfortunately, it's probably harder for these things to detect boredom vs. interest than simpler emotions, but it would be cool if you could set it so your player runs faster when you're bored and slower when you're interested (and there are already sound-adjuster programs out there so you can run faster or slower without distorting the sound pitch badly.)
You want to use this in interactive mode, not batch, so it's reacting to what you're interested in or bored about now, not what you felt about it last time. WAIT! WHAT? BACKUP! No, not that far - Yeah, there!
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks