MIT researchers have taught their AI to see through solid walls – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin

Recently we've seen camera developments from both China and MIT that help us see and take photos around corners, but now you don't need exotic infra red, radar or wifi to spot people through walls, apparently all you need are some easily detectable wireless signals and a dash of AI. Following on from another piece of research that let MIT researchers read peoples emotions using just the WiFi signals from their home routers, another team of researchers at MIT have developed a system, called RF-Pose, where RF stands for Radio Frequency, that uses a neural network to teach RF equipped devices to sense people's movement and postures behind obstacles, and it could be used to help people keep track of elderly relatives in their homes, help gamers turn the house into a giant battleground, and help rescuers rescue people. The team trained their AI to recognise human motion in RF by showing it examples of both on camera movement and signals reflected from people's bodies, helping it understand how the reflections correlate to a given posture. From there the AI could use wireless alone to estimate someone's movements and represent them using stick figures. The scientists mainly see their invention as useful for health care, for the moment anyway, where it could be used to track the development of diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.