DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system | ExtremeTech

Talk about “The Human Side of Data Quality.”  which, by the way, will be a theme of the 2013 MIT Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Conference.

There are two discrete parts to the system: The 120-megapixel camera, which is tripod-mounted and looks over the battlefield (pictured below); and the computer system, where a soldier sits in front of a computer monitor with an EEG strapped to his head (pictured above). Images from the camera are fed into the computer system, which runs cognitive visual processing algorithms to detect possible threats (enemy combatants, sniper nests, IEDs). These possible threats are then shown to a soldier whose brain then works out if they’re real threats — or a false alarm (a tree branch, a shadow thrown by an overheard bird).

DARPA combines human brains and 120-megapixel cameras to create the ultimate military threat detection system | ExtremeTech