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Lots of interesting work on this by the military. They show rapid-fire photos of satellite imagery to analysts who are looking for interesting features. They
by joshvm 13y ago
Lots of interesting work on this by the military. They show rapid-fire photos of satellite imagery to analysts who are looking for interesting features. They monitor the brain activity and look for responses when features appear. Results show that the analysts' brains detect things before they're consciously aware of it.
They then tag the images that registered a response and look at them in more detail. Apparently it's fairly effective.
http://honeywell.com/News/Pages/news76.aspx http://honeywell.com/News/Pages/news76.aspx
- bbosh 13y agoInteresting, but also pretty scary. It's effectively machine learning with real people as the algorithm. Literally plugging people into a computer.
- amirmc 13y agoPresumably, those analysts still need to be trained in the normal way first so that they know what features they're looking for. In addition, you could probably only use people for short durations before you have to allow them to rest, otherwise you run the risk of exhausting people and missing things (c.f Air Traffic controllers). Apart from that, this kind of reminds of the 'Focused' people from one of Vernor Vinge's novels [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky