MIND

READING
COMPUTER
 CONTENTS

• Introduction
• What is mind
reading..?
• Why mind reading..?
• How does it works..?
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Applications
• Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION

• People express their mental states,including

emotions,thoughts & desires,all the time
through facial expressions, vocal nuances and
gestures.
• Mind reading machine is co-ordination of
human psychology & computer techniques.
 WHAT IS MIND READING..?
• 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,
• Prior knowledge of how particular mental states
are expressed in the face is combined with
analysis of facial expressions and head gestures
occurring in real time.
• Software from NEVENVISION identifies 24
feature points on the face and tracks them in
real time.
• For example, a combination of a head nod,
with a smile and eyebrows raised might mean
interest.
 WHY MIND READING..?
• The Mind Reading Computer system presents
information about your mental state as easily
as a keyboard and mouse present a text &
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 & learning system.
• The mind reading computer system may also be
used to monitor & suggest improvements in
human-human interaction.
• To implement this system in cars, to detect
driver’s mental states such as drowsiness,
distraction and anger.
 HOW DOES IT
• The mindWORKS..?
reading
Futuristic head
involves measuring the
actually
volume and oxygen level band
of the blood around the
subject’s using technique
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
• For the first test of sensors, scientists trained
the program to recognize 6 words including
“go”, “left” and “right” – 10 numbers.
• Then researchers put the letters of the
alphabet into a matrix with each column and
row labelled 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.
Techniques:
Facial 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
• Can read minds
• Help paralytic patients
• Help handicapped people
• Help comma patients
• Help people cannot speak
• Can be used for military field & sting
operations
• Can be combined with consoles & used for
mind gaming, robotics, etc.
• Eliminate the capability to lie
 DISADVANTAGES

• Breach in privacy
• Can extract, through an individual,
an important, secure & confidential
information of individual, state or
even a country
• Can't make good lies
• Risk of being used in bad way
• Expensive
 APPLICATIONS

• A mind controlled wheel

chair developed from
the University of
Electro-
Communications in
Japan.
• Brain-Computer Typing
machine by thinking
about left and right head
movement user can
• In spell checking.
• In interactive gaming areas.
• For controlling a
mechatronic device.
• Interactions within a virtual
reality environment.
• Communication by
thoughts.
CONCLUSION
• Some equipment are used to gather data & then
analyzed. To use those data for further
prediction is known as “Theory of mind
reading”.
• 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.
• Hence if we get 100% accuracy these
computers may find various applications in
many fields of electronics where we have
very less time to react.
• IBM says Mind reading is no longer
science fiction we will have Mind-
Reading Computers within 5 years.
Any
Questions..???
THANK
YOU...