DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System 145
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."
Commercially viable. (Score:3, Funny)
The TV networks will love this!
pr0n (Score:5, Funny)
[...] allow a user wearing an EEG cap to filter through scores of digital images at high-speed and pick out something of interest.
hi-speed pr0n!
Al Gore, where are you? (Score:3, Funny)
In the small print... (Score:5, Funny)
Try digg (Score:3, Funny)
Leave those replicants alone (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, they are only guilty of DNA copyright infringement! It's not like it's an actual crime, bud!
That an insult to the monkeys (Score:5, Funny)
... hunting ... is right! (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, I've seen this one before
But maybe, Coyotes are just funny like that!
Re:Next stop... (Score:3, Funny)
Wait. How is this better than when I used to sneak down into the living room as a kid to watch still-scrambled skin flicks on cable?
SETI@brain? (Score:5, Funny)
I've got one of these hats. (Score:2, Funny)
Motion to revoke geek liscense (Score:4, Funny)
Shees, next it's going to be 2001, The Time Machine, and Ice Pirates
Wait, wrong argument
to allow this affrontery to continue will undoubtably lead to the end of Western Culture as we know it, for without due veneration of our classical arts, we shall indeed be doomed to an eternity of Jerry Springer and Teletubbies. Oh the humanity of it all.
Re:How is this different from security guards? (Score:5, Funny)
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...
The end of the 'analog hole'? (Score:4, Funny)
Don't tell the MPAA! By feeding digital images directly into the brain of the viewer, they've finally managed to get rid of that nasty analog hole [wikipedia.org] that pirates are always exploiting.
Now all we need (Score:2, Funny)
Re:pr0n (Score:2, Funny)
Then I wonder what happens when they are shown an image of a scantily clad female whos backside is exploding with some new technologically advanced orange juice delivery system?
*shudder*
What is the CCCVS? (Score:3, Funny)
To hack through captchas for porn. It really is the hive mind.
Re:Commercially viable. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next stop... (Score:3, Funny)
(. . . waiting for the mod points to roll on in. . . )