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Movie reconstruction from human brain activity

Jack Gallant · demo · Watch on YouTube

Neuroscience & the brainComputer vision, speech & NLP

What it is

Jack Gallant's lab demonstrates reconstructing movie trailer clips a subject watched from fMRI brain activity, using regression models trained on hours of viewing data. The video shows the original clip beside the reconstruction.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as the landmark brain-decoding demo and compares newer reconstruction work against it.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “This is a much cooler example”

    Reconstructs seen video from brain activity

    Houshalter, 2013-08 · Recommendation · in “Computer can read letters directly from the brain”

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Topics: fmri, neuroscience, brain-computer interface, visual reconstruction, berkeley

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