This document discusses mind reading technology that can analyze a person's facial expressions in real time to infer their mental state. It works by tracking facial feature points and using dynamic Bayesian networks to model the relationship between expressions and mental states. Potential applications include improving human-computer interaction, monitoring human interactions, and detecting driver states like drowsiness. However, issues around privacy and predicting future behavior must still be addressed.
The team in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has developed mind reading computers that implement a computational model of mind reading to infer mental states of people from their facial signals.
Using a digital video camera, the mind reading computer system analyzes a person’s underlying mental state, such as whether he/she is agreeing or disagreeing, interested or bored, thinking or confused.
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Introduction:Simple way of Mind Reading is by just seeing and understanding the facial expressions. Example a smile can give the expression of happiness. Now a days it is possible that a computer can understand what the person is thinking about.
People express their mental states, including emotions, thoughts and desires, all the time through facial expressions, and gestures. Our mental states shape the decisions that we make, govern how we communicate with others, and affect our performance. Some equipments are used to gather data & then analyzed to use those data for further predictions of mind-This is known as theory of Mind Reading.
BCI or DNI is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device. DNIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
The team in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has developed mind reading computers that implement a computational model of mind reading to infer mental states of people from their facial signals.
Using a digital video camera, the mind reading computer system analyzes a person’s underlying mental state, such as whether he/she is agreeing or disagreeing, interested or bored, thinking or confused.
Blue Eyes Technology gives Perceptional Abilities To a Computer Using Bluetooth,Eye Gaze Tacker,Emotion Recognizing Mouse,There By making it to interact with human Being.
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Introduction:Simple way of Mind Reading is by just seeing and understanding the facial expressions. Example a smile can give the expression of happiness. Now a days it is possible that a computer can understand what the person is thinking about.
People express their mental states, including emotions, thoughts and desires, all the time through facial expressions, and gestures. Our mental states shape the decisions that we make, govern how we communicate with others, and affect our performance. Some equipments are used to gather data & then analyzed to use those data for further predictions of mind-This is known as theory of Mind Reading.
BCI or DNI is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device. DNIs are often directed at researching, mapping, assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions.
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The world of science cannot be measured in terms of development and progress. It has now reached to the technology known as “Blue eyes technology” that can sense and control human emotions and feelings through gadgets. The eyes, fingers, speech are the elements which help to sense the emotion level of human body.
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The “BLUE EYES” technology aims at creating computational machines that have perceptual and sensory ability like those of human beings. This paper implements a new technique known as Emotion Sensory World of Blue eyes technology which identifies human emotions (sad. happy. exalted or surprised) using image processing techniques by extracting eye portion from the captured image which is then compared with stored images of data base.
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2. TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
What is mind reading?
Why mind reading?
How does it work?
Advantages and uses
Disadvantages and problems
Conclusion
3. INTRODUCTION:
People express their mental states, including emotions, thoughts and desires, all the time
through facial expressions, vocal nuances and gestures. This is true even when they are
interacting with machines.
The ability to attribute mental states to others from their behavior and to use that knowledge to
guide our own actions and predict those of others is known as theory of mind or mind-reading.
Existing human-computer interfaces are mind-blind — oblivious to the user’s mental states and
intentions.
Even if they do take the initiative, like the now retired Microsoft Paperclip, they are often
misguided and irrelevant, and simply frustrate the user.
4. WHAT IS MIND READING?
Drawing inspiration from psychology, computer vision and machine learning
has developed mind-reading machines computers.
Using a digital video camera, the mindreading computer system analyzes a
person’s facial expressions in real time and infers that person’s underlying mental
state.
Prior knowledge of how particular mental states are expressed in the face is
combined with analysis of facial expressions and head gestures occurring inreal
time
Software from Nevenvision identifies 24 feature points on the face and tracks
them in real time.
The relationship between observable head and facial displays and the
corresponding hidden mental states over time is modeled using Dynamic Bayesian
Networks.
5.
6. .
WHY MIND READING?
The mind-reading computer system presents information about your mental state as easily
as a keyboard and mouse present text and commands.
Current projects in Cambridge are considering further inputs such as body posture and
gestures to improve the inference.
. We are also looking at the use of mind-reading to support on-line shopping and learning
systems.
7. The mind-reading computer system may also be used to monitor and suggest
improvements in human-human interaction.
The Affective Computing Group at the MIT Media Laboratory is developing an
emotional-social intelligence prosthesis that explores new technologies to augment and
improve people’s social interactions and communication skills.
To implement this system in cars to detect driver mental states such as
drowsiness, distraction and anger.
8. HOW DOES IT WORKS?
Futuristic Head Band:
The mind reading actually involves measuring the volume and oxygen level of the blood
around the subject's brain, using technology called functional near-infrared spectroscopy
(fNIRS).
The user wears a sort of futuristic headband that sends light in that spectrum into the tissues
of the head where it is absorbed by active, blood-filled tissues.
9. The results are often compared to an MRI, but can be gathered with
lightweight, noninvasive equipment.
Wearing the fNIRS sensor, experimental subjects were asked to count the number of
squares on a rotating onscreen cube and to perform other tasks.
The subjects were then asked to rate the difficulty of the tasks, and their ratings
agreed with the work intensity detected by the fNIRS system up to 83 percent of the
time.
Measuring mental workload, frustration and distraction is typically limited to
qualitatively observing computer users.
A computer program which can read silently spoken words by analyzing nerve
signals in our mouths and throats, has been developed by NASA.
Preliminary results show that using buttonsized sensors.
"Biological signals arise when reading or speaking to oneself with or without actual
lip or facial movement”.
10.
11. ADVANTAGES AND USES:
MIND CONTROLLED WHEELCHAIR
This prototype mind-controlled wheelchair developed from the University of Electro
Communications in Japan.
A little different from the Brain-Computer Typing machine, this thing works by mapping
brain waves when you think about moving left, right, forward or back,and then assigns that to a
wheelchair.
This device doesn't give you MINDBULLETS (apologies to Tenacious D) but it does allow
people who can't use other wheelchairs get around easier.
The system could send commands to rovers on other planets, help injured astronauts control
machines, or aid disabled people.
12. ADVANTAGES AND USES:
The finding raises issues about the application of such tools for screeningsuspected
terrorists as well as for predicting future dangerousness more generally.
The day when computers will be able to recognize the smallest units in the English
language—the 40-odd basic sounds (orphonemes) out of which all words orverbalized
thoughts can be constructed.
13. DISADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS:
TAPPING BRAINS FOR FUTURE CRIME
Using computer algorithms and functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, the
scientists were able to determine with 70percent accuracy.
Individual brains differ, so scientists need to study a subject's patterns before they
can train a computer to identify those patterns or make predictions.
In the Dec.19, 2006, issue of The Economist, an article questioned the scientific
validity of the notion of free will: Individuals with particular congenital genetic
characteristics are predisposed, if not predestined, to violence.
Max Planck Institute, neuroscience and bioscience are not at a point where we can
reliably predict human behavior.
14. DISADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS:
Nor is society ready to deal with the ethical and practical problems posed by a
system that classifies and categorizes people based on oxygen flow, genetics and
environmental factors that are correlated as much with poverty as with future
criminality.
In time, neuroscience may produce reliable behavior predictions. But until
then, we should take the lessons of science fiction to heart when deciding how to
use new
predictive techniques.
15. CONCLUSION
Tufts University researchers have begun a three-year research project
which, if successful, will allow computers to respond to the brain activity of the
computer's user.
Users wear futuristic looking headbands to shine light on their foreheads, and
then perform a series of increasingly difficult tasks while the device reads what
parts of the brain are absorbing the light. That info is then transferred to the
computer, and from there the computer can adjust it’s interface and functions to
each individual.