"....eeeyo oh...they're gonna find out it's me leaving the turd under the dogs dish.....just because I can't stop laffin"
Posted on 09/20/2016 10:33:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"The whole thing started by trying to understand how we can extract information about people’s emotions and health in general using something that’s completely passive—does not require people to wear anything on their body or have to express things themselves actively," says Prof. Dina Katabi, who conducted the research along with graduate students Mingmin Zhao and Fadel Adib.
The system, called EQ-Radio, works by generating a low-power wireless signal and measuring the time it takes the signal to reflect from various signals in its vicinity. Since the reflection time from people’s bodies vary as they inhale and exhale, and as their hearts beat, it can distinguish humans from other objects that generate static reflections, according to a paper the team plans to present next month at the Association for Computing Machinery’s International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.
Then, the system learns to distinguish heartbeats, which cause faster but smaller changes in reflections, from breathing, which leads to slower but larger differences.
...
"We are able to extract breathing and heart rate in a very passive way without asking the user to do anything except for what he does naturally," says Katabi, who in 2013 was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work on wireless networks.
Both sets of measurements are then fed into a machine-learning process that observes people in emotional states including anger, joy, and sadness, along with their heart and breathing rates. Once it’s trained, EQ-Radio is about 87% accurate in recognizing emotions in people it observed during training and more than 70% accurate in others, the researchers say.
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
Passive yet invasive.
Fascinating article. On a lighter note, my mother demonstrated this ability 50 years ago, without any equipment.
"....eeeyo oh...they're gonna find out it's me leaving the turd under the dogs dish.....just because I can't stop laffin"
I see. And why, exactly, would you want to do that, Dina?
When will we be arrested for being angry with the wrong person, even though our demeanor suggests complete self-control????
In addition to monitoring your emotions via heart rate and breathing from a distance,
“they” can actually hear conversations based on vibrations on nearby objects, or even a covered webcam.
I imagine a tinfoil hat will now be more liability than protection! ;n)
MIT researchers can listen to your conversation by watching your ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-scien... Proxy Highlight
Aug 4, 2014 ... Imagine someone listening in to your private conversation by filming the bag of chips sitting on the other side of the room. Oddly specific, I know ...
Extracting audio from visual information | MIT News
news.mit.edu/2014/algorithm-recovers-speech-from-vibr... Proxy Highlight
Aug 4, 2014 ... Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through ... I think we could learn a lot from listening to the very small.
Good lord that’s funnier then hell!
RE: screwy cat video pic
“....eeeyo oh...they’re gonna find out it’s me leaving the turd under the dogs dish.....just because I can’t stop laffin”
Holy mood rings, Batman
*smiles*
Anybody working on stealth clothing?
There lies the real conspiracy. Tin foil has been replaced with aluminum, which is completely ineffective. /S
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
Sorry to flush your toilet, but that does not track emotions. Cut the hype.
Yup - thermal ghillie cape
https://www.oathkeepers.org/defeating-drones-how-to-build-a-thermal-evasion-suit/
Let the people at MIT know that you think their toilet needs to be flushed.
No sense in you whining about it here
RE: “Sorry to flush your toilet, but that does not track emotions. Cut the hype.”
Yes, you’re the expert.
/s
MIT, Microsoft, IBM, and federal agencies are entirely wasting their time developing passive technologies to track behavior.
I mean, why would Obama enact a Behavioral Science Executive Order in Sept 15 2015, that established the creation of Behavioral Health citizen databases?
From the article:
“companies ranging from fledgling startups to giants like Microsoft and IBM have offered software to infer emotional state from facial expressions, spoken words, and written language. And while these tools can be useful to companies looking to understand their customers’ emotional states or even to consumers looking to track their own feelings over time, there’s also plenty of potential for abuse, especially if people’s emotions, or simply their heart rate and breathing, are tracked without their consent or even knowledge.
“I think that any kind of nonconsensual monitoring of people’s metabolism is a pretty serious invasion of privacy,” says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we see security applications for that, maybe even commercial applications, where people aren’t even aware that they’re being monitored, let alone having given permission for it.”
Security officials could treat elevated heart rates as evidence of lying or suspicious behavior, or employers might shy away from hiring job candidates whose vital signs suggest potential health issues, he suggests.
The MIT researchers say their current prototypes are designed so they can only be used consensually: The existing version of the device prompts users to make certain distinctive motions that it can wirelessly detect, in order to effectively authorize it to begin tracking, says Katabi. And, she says, they’ve already developed ways that people can block such a system system from taking measurements where it’s known to be in use, essentially by transmitting interference at similar frequencies.
“You want to block the information this wireless signal has by countering it with another wireless signal,” she says.
But in some cases, like in employer-employee relationships, people might still find themselves coerced into allowing such technology to be used, potentially with little recourse under current laws, says Stanley.
“If an employer informed its employees that it was doing it, and was very up front about it and made it a condition of employment, I’m not sure whether it would be illegal,” he says. “Even so, it’s an extremely intrusive thing to do to your workers.”
BBB
I'm safe.................
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.