December 11, 2011

Images pulled straight from the human brain

Photoshop plug-in (featuring the world’s most invasive USB dongle) next, maybe? :-) Via Kottke:

This is incredible…researchers at Berkeley have developed a system that reads people’s minds while they watch a video and then roughly reconstructs what they were watching from thousands of hours of YouTube videos. This short demo shows how it works:

Posted by John Nack at 2:16 PM on December 11, 2011

Comments

  • J. Peterson — 8:30 PM on December 11, 2011 Reply

    I guess your ocular implants may already be obsolete.

  • Nenad — 5:49 PM on December 12, 2011 Reply

    Amazing research. Some images are quite detailed and it is easy to reconstruct an original object of observation.

  • Matt Strauss — 10:11 AM on December 14, 2011 Reply

    Not too far off from the dream recordings in Wim Wenders’ Until the end of the World…

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