JVCKENWOOD Showcases Brainwave-Activated AI-Pushed...

At CEATEC 2024, we visited the JVCKENWOOD sales space, which featured three areas themed round “Connecting folks, time, and area to create the longer term.” This aligns with the corporate’s philosophy of “bringing pleasure and peace of thoughts to folks all over the world” via cutting-edge expertise to complement lives. JVCKENWOOD showcased progressive video, audio, and wi-fi options designed to create new worth for the longer term. The primary space, labeled by the corporate “Impression – Leisure Space,” * featured tech demonstrations that engaged all 5 senses—imaginative and prescient, listening to, contact, odor, and style—offering a deeply immersive, multi-sensory expertise.

AI Creates Music and Video Based mostly On Your Unconscious Emotional Response

On the JVCKENWOOD sales space’s “Impression Leisure Space,”* we skilled an progressive demo combining brainwave detection, human senses, and AI to create personalised music and video. Contributors are uncovered to stimuli, equivalent to pre-prepared movies, designed to evoke emotional responses. A brainwave headset then detects the feelings generated, and AI makes use of this information to compose music and undertaking corresponding photographs in real-time. The outcome, described as “the music and video you created,” is performed again. The AI additional classifies the participant’s unconscious reactions, robotically producing music and visuals that replicate their emotional state, providing a singular interactive expertise.

How Does The Know-how Behind the Emotion-driven AI-Generated Music And Video Creation Work?

Suguru Goto, Affiliate Professor within the Division of Musical Creativity and the Surroundings at Tokyo College of the Arts, introduced a demo developed by a workforce of researchers with the help of JVCKENWOOD. Suguru Goto, who can also be a composer and a media artist, showcased the progressive use of brain-computer interface expertise for artwork creation on the JVCKENWOOD sales space.

How Did The Demo Work?

The workforce used an Emotiv Perception EEG headset designed to assist researchers and engineers develop progressive options for brain-computer interfaces in numerous fields. Having personally tested several Emotiv products of their early days, I can vouch for the robustness of their brainwave-enabled {hardware} instruments, which have change into trusted options in neuroscience-based interface growth.

Once we arrived on the demo, the headset was already calibrated to the participant’s brainwaves. Based on Suguru Goto, the system requires only a few minutes to calibrate for every new person. The method started with a quick meditation session, adopted by the participant viewing a number of pre-prepared movies designed to set off particular emotional responses. The Emotiv Perception headset recorded the brainwaves throughout these actions whereas AI-driven software program interpreted the information.

Suguru Goto defined that brainwaves are analyzed utilizing machine studying algorithms, which categorize the information into 28 emotional states. These states are organized on a Cartesian aircraft, with the X-axis (horizontal) starting from discomfort (unpleasure) to pleasure, and the Y-axis (vertical) starting from alertness (arousing) to sleepiness.He additionally confirmed me a pill displaying a graphic illustration of how the software program additional divides these 28 emotional states into 64 subdivisions, offering a extra detailed view of the participant’s emotional responses.

28 emotional states, subdivided into 64 divisions, are organized on a Cartesian aircraft, with the X-axis (horizontal) starting from discomfort (unpleasure) to pleasure and the Y-axis (vertical) starting from alertness (arousing) to sleepiness.

After the participant accomplished the video classes, the system robotically generated music and video primarily based on his emotional responses. This demonstration highlighted how brainwave information, mixed with synthetic intelligence, can create subconscious-based personalised audio-visual content material, providing a glimpse into the potential of brain-computer interface applied sciences in artistic fields.

For the demo at CEATEC, the sound was performed via  JVCKENWOOD picket audio system, and the AI-generated video was displayed on a big display screen.

The creative idea of the undertaking, shared with me in a non-public video, includes displaying emotion-triggering movies on a monitor dealing with the participant, whereas the AI-generated visuals are projected onto the ground in a darkish room the place the particular person is seated.

Past AI-based Artwork: Unlock Limitless Potentialities For Human Wellness

Despite the fact that that is a powerful creative analysis undertaking, Affiliate Professor Suguru Goto indicated that it gives vital potential for health-related functions, significantly psychological well being care. 

I do know that Emotiv’s major purpose is to supply high-quality EEG-based {hardware} and software program instruments to allow researchers to develop options that improve cognitive and mental health. This contains creating progressive approaches to music neurofeedback therapy.

JVCKENWOOD Wood-made SP-WS02BT audio system – the audio playback was nice

Along with video stimuli, different sensory inputs—equivalent to sound, style, and odor—may additionally set off emotional responses in members. For instance, the participant may maintain a JVCKENWOOD “Hug Speaker” (see picture), which vibrates in sync with the sound, or enjoy the scent of the wooden from audio system crafted from numerous kinds of pure wooden. These stimuli may complement the AI-generated video and music created from brainwave information.

“Hug Speaker” – picture courtesy of JVCKENWOOD

Though we didn’t expertise the demo for different sensory stimuli on the sales space, I’m assured they’d work seamlessly with the identical demo setup and AI-driven software program, creating photographs and music primarily based on the participant’s unconscious emotional response to this sensory stimulation.

* Editor’s be aware: “Impression – Leisure Space” is an English translation by Google primarily based on JVCKENWOOD  Japanese Press Release

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