Other Scientists discover way to read video from your brain

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/23/scientists-reconstruct-images-from-our-brains-plan-to-do-the-sa/

Straight out of a science fiction film.

 

lol the flying parrot looks more like Steve Martin than Steve Martin does.

 

And just what are they going to to with the endless pr0n they're going to harvest?

 

fap ofc!

 

I wonder if the reconstruction is unique to each individual. i.e. will the computer be able to reconstruct images off of every ones brain or will it need to learn a unique pattern of activity for each individual.

 

I like how every face seems to link to the same image. It sort of shows how our thought process works.

 

Epic.

 

That parrot looks more like a man than Steve Martin does, but damn does it look spooky
I can't imagine how many applications there would be if they got it working well... security, police, military, live monitoring convicted criminals to ensure they don't re-offend... if they could view and distinguish the difference between actual memories and imagined images, then it would revolutionize court procedures... near infinite possibilities, almost just like the Minority Report! Big, BIG bucks

Shame they don't get this working well for the blind first:

http://www.jwen.com/rp/articles/dobelle.html

These sort of cameras have been in development for a long time, not as much money in it though unfortunately.

 

Its just a matter of time before some women is put on trial for her dreams of aliens and their inherent 'influence' over her.

Also I am creeped out by those videos... its eery... (pretty sure I seen a clam like ship crashing and aliens coming out of it)

 

House had this a couple years ago already....

 

Noooo all the porn.............

 

The system isn't reading images from a brain yet, it is applying pattern recognition from neural signals to video clips and producing a merged output of similar results. So essentially when you watch a bird on YouTube certain 'birdlike' brainwaves are compared the results they gained from showing people videos of birds previously; it finds all these videos and smudges them together... weird way of doing it but still very clever.

 

Pretty neat, but I'm certain that no one should have to see some of the effed up crap that I sometimes dream - seriously, really screwed up stuff that horrifies me when I wake up and think about it.

I'm sure others have a similar outlook?

 

fMRI does not measure brainwaves it measures blood flow. So it is an indirect measure of neural activity. Very precise spatially but with terrible temporal resolution. Haemodynamic response is slow, so no moving images and only static ones that remain so after a considerable amount of time. Nevertheless this is extremely exciting.

 

I know had this dream last night..

 

I'd be interested to see some kind of control group with someone who became blind and someone born blind. They still have all the cognitive processes that we do and it stands to reason that in a dreamlike state they could experience what their brain could interpret as sight. The result from such a process as this could prove to be very intriguing.

I'm serious by the way, this isn't a troll post. Admittedly it maybe a bit far-fetched for people born blind but for those who became blind later in life they would have memories of images stored, just the same that amputees have the memories of feelings stored from those limbs which have been removed i.e. phantom itching and the like.

 

I store the video in my brain in mpeg, so i can fit more in.

 

I once dreamed a midget version of Hulk with the face of Carlton banks beated the sh*t out of me in my house's backyard. He was 1/3 third my size, and it just gets weirder from there.

 

This sort of stuff is just getting creepy now.