{"id":72801,"date":"2017-09-24T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-police-sketches-researchers-perfectly-reconstruct-faces"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:36:12","slug":"forget-police-sketches-researchers-perfectly-reconstruct-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/forget-police-sketches-researchers-perfectly-reconstruct-faces","title":{"rendered":"Forget Police Sketches: Researchers Perfectly Reconstruct Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-police-sketches-researchers-perfectly-reconstruct-faces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture this: you\u2019re sitting in a police interrogation room, struggling to describe the face of a criminal to a sketch artist. You pause, wrinkling your brow, trying to remember the distance between his eyes and the shape of his nose.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the detective offers you an easier way: would you like to have your brain scanned instead, so that machines can automatically reconstruct the face in your mind\u2019s eye from reading your brain waves?<\/p>\n<p>Sound fantastical? It\u2019s not. After decades of work, scientists at Caltech may have finally cracked our brain\u2019s facial recognition code. Using brain scans and direct neuron recording from macaque monkeys, the team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(17)30538-X\">found<\/a> specialized \u201cface patches\u201d that respond to specific combinations of facial features.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/06\/14\/forget-police-sketches-researchers-perfectly-reconstruct-faces-by-reading-brainwaves\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/06\/14\/forget-police-sketches...rainwaves\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: you\u2019re sitting in a police interrogation room, struggling to describe the face of a criminal to a sketch artist. You pause, wrinkling your brow, trying to remember the distance between his eyes and the shape of his nose. Suddenly, the detective offers you an easier way: would you like to have your brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}