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DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision 82

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the mad-scientists-with-funding dept.
MrSeb writes with news about our coming cybernetic overlords. From the article: "After more than four years of research, DARPA has created a system that successfully combines soldiers, EEG brainwave scanners, 120-megapixel cameras, and multiple computers running cognitive visual processing algorithms into a cybernetic hivemind. Called the Cognitive Technology Threat Warning System (CT2WS), it will be used in a combat setting to significantly improve the U.S. Army's threat detection capabilities. There are two discrete parts to the system: The 120-megapixel camera, which is tripod-mounted and looks over the battlefield; and the computer system, where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor with an EEG strapped to his head, looking at images captured by the camera, wedding out false threats. In testing, the 120-megapixel camera, combined with the computer vision algorithms, generated 810 false alarms per hour; with a human operator strapped into the EEG, that drops down to just five false alarms per hour. The human brain is surprisingly fast, too: According to DARPA, CT2WS displays 10 images per second to the human operator — and yet that doesn't seem to affect accuracy."

Comment Re:Underwhelming implementation (Score 1) 73

by MarkGriz (#41311961) Attached to: Converting RSS Feeds To a Dynamic 3D Scene In 120 Lines of Code

I think the point people are trying to make here is that TFA title is "Converting RSS Feeds To a Dynamic 3D Scene in 120 Lines of Code"
and when we look at the examples, we are seeing the 3D equivalent of the "blink" tag.

Why bother with the announcement of the tools, without a bit more effort put into what they can do.
Maybe the tools are great, but how would we know.

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