Mind Reading Computer

Presented by

M.VinothkumarFinal year IT

Sri Vidya College of Engineering & Technology

CONTENTSIntroductionWhat is Mind Reading?Why Mind Reading?How does it Work?Advantages and usesDisadvantages and ProblemsConclusion

INTRODUCTIONPeople express their mental state, including emotions, thoughts and desires, all time through facial expression, vocal nuances and gestureMind reading machine is co-ordination of human psychology and computer techniques.Some Equipment are used to gather data & then analyzed. To use those data for further prediction is known as theory of mind reading.

WHAT IS MIND READING? The team in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has developed Mind Reading Machines-Computers that implement computational model of Mind Reading to infer mental states of people from their facial signal. Prior Knowledge of how particular mental states are expressed in the face is combined with analysis of facial expression and head gestures occurring in real time. Software from Nevenvision identifies 24 feature point on the face and tracks them in real time. For example, a combination of head node, with a smile and eyebrows raised might mean interest.

PROCESS OF MIND READING COMPUTER

WHY MIND READING?The Mind reading Computer system Present

information about your mental state as easily as a keyboard and mouse present a text and commands.

Current project in Cambridge are considering further input such as body posture and gesture to improve the inference.

We also looking at the use of Mind reading to support online shopping and learning system.

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.

 

HOW DOES IT WORKSThe mind reading actually

involves measuring the volume and oxygen level of the blood around the subject’s brain using tech. called functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

The user wears a sort of futuristic head band that send light in that spectrum in to the tissues of the head where it is absorbed by active, blood filled tissues.

Web searchFor the first test of sensors,

scientists trained the program to recognize six words-including ”go", "left” and “right” -10 numbers.

Then researchers put the letters of the alphabet in to a matrix with each column and row labeled with a single digit number.

These were used to silently spell ”NASA” into a web search engine using program.

“This proved we could browse the web without touching a keyboard”.

Results can be evaluated in below way:

1.NeuroscienceIt deals with anatomy and molecular biology

of neurons.A neuron is a nerve cell that is the basic

building block of the nervous system. Neurons are specialized to transmit information throughout the body.

It is done by measuring oxygen level of blood using FNIRS.

2. TechniquesFacial effect detection

It is done using hidden Markov Model, Neural Network processing or active appearance model.

Emotional Classification

Classification by Paul Ekman Anger, Fear, Happiness, Disgust, Sadness, Surprise.

Advantages and usesCan read minds

Help paralytic patients

Help Handicapped people

Help Comma patients

Help people who cant speak

Can be used for military purposes & sting operations

Can be combined with consoles & used for mind gaming, robotics & stuff.

Eliminate the capability to lie.

Disadvantages and problemBreach in privacy Can extract, through an individual, an

important, secure & confidential information of individual, state or even a country

If developed or used by sinners, can be highly dangerous

EavesdroppingNo way to neutralize this technology

ConclusionTufts 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 head bands 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.