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Researchers Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves

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Re: Researchers Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves

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Wow, that's improved amazingly in quality since the last time I saw something similar. Then, the 'reconstructed faces' were blurry blobs that were barely recognizable as faces. These are great.

It's an apples-to-oranges comparison though. These researchers generated 2000 faces. It sounds like from there they essentially did nearest neighbor search to find the predicted face. It's still impressive (and accomplished what they wanted), but it doesn't solve the problem of recreating the images from just the brainwaves.

From the article "In fact, they were nearly indistinguishable from the actual photos shown to the monkeys." It doesn't really sound like they did that.

Re: Researchers Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an apples-to-oranges comparison though. These researchers generated 2000 faces. It sounds like from there they essentially did nearest neighbor search to find the predicted face. It's still impressive (and accomplished what they wanted), but it doesn't solve the problem of recreating the images from just the brainwaves.

From the article "In fact, they were nearly indistinguishable from the actual photos shown to the monkeys." It doesn't really sound like they did that.

Don't take popular media reporting on science at face value. I'm not saying I know better, though.

Re: Researchers Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves

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Could advances in this field be used to help blind people to "see" faces etc. by bypassing the eyes and instead directly communicating with the relevant neurons? I would love to read the research paper but unfortunately it is Elseviered!!!

Sci hub :) was even on the frontpage here a couple of days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14632603
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