Valeriani, Davide and Poli, Riccardo (2019) Cyborg groups enhance face recognition in crowded environments. PLoS ONE, 14 (3). e0212935-e0212935. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212935
Valeriani, Davide and Poli, Riccardo (2019) Cyborg groups enhance face recognition in crowded environments. PLoS ONE, 14 (3). e0212935-e0212935. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212935
Valeriani, Davide and Poli, Riccardo (2019) Cyborg groups enhance face recognition in crowded environments. PLoS ONE, 14 (3). e0212935-e0212935. DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212935
Abstract
Recognizing a person in a crowded environment is a challenging, yet critical, visual-search task for both humans and machine-vision algorithms. This paper explores the possibility of combining a residual neural network (ResNet), brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and human participants to create “cyborgs” that improve decision making. Human participants and a ResNet undertook the same face-recognition experiment. BCIs were used to decode the decision confidence of humans from their EEG signals. Different types of cyborg groups were created, including either only humans (with or without the BCI) or groups of humans and the ResNet. Cyborg groups decisions were obtained weighing individual decisions by confidence estimates. Results show that groups of cyborgs are significantly more accurate (up to 35%) than the ResNet, the average participant, and equally-sized groups of humans not assisted by technology. These results suggest that melding humans, BCI, and machine-vision technology could significantly improve decision-making in realistic scenarios.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Adult; Brain; Brain-Computer Interfaces; Decision Making; Electroencephalography; Evoked Potentials, Visual; Facial Recognition; Female; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Male; Neural Networks, Computer; Reaction Time |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2019 16:26 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:09 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/24101 |
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