AI Connected to Brain Allows Humans to 'See' Around Corners

Artificial intelligence (AI) can use a person's brainwaves to see around corners and create images of objects the human eye can not directly see. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have shown that the computational imaging technique, known as "ghost imaging", can be combined with human vision to reconstruct the image of objects hidden from view by analyzing how the brain processes barely visible reflections on a wall. Ghost imaging has been used before to reveal objects hidden around corners and normally involves beaming laser light onto a surface, around a corner and back to a camera sensor, then using algorithms to decode the scattered returned light to identify the object. For the new study, researchers swapped out the camera for human eyes. Although the researchers previously used human vision in a passive manner to perform ghost imaging, the new work uses the human visual system in an active role by having a person view the light patterns instead of a camera.