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Re:Scientists extract images directly from brain by tlrobinson on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:12PM (#395024)
The article states that the actual images shown during the second phase were different than the "training" images that the computer showed to subject and used to "learn".
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Re:Scientists extract images directly from brain by Tichy on Friday December 12, 2008 @03:43AM (#395515)
Hm, must have missed that. So they train on a letter "A" and then they can recognise a "B"?
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Re:Scientists extract images directly from brain by tlrobinson on Friday December 12, 2008 @06:43AM (#395590)
I think they trained on a bunch of random patterns, and can recognize basically anything of approximately the same resolution.
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