JVCKENWOOD Showcases Brainwave-Activated AI-Pushed Music Composition and Video Creation At CEATEC 2024

At CEATEC 2024, we visited the JVCKENWOOD sales space, which featured three areas themed round “Connecting individuals, time, and house to create the longer term.” This aligns with the corporate’s philosophy of “bringing pleasure and peace of thoughts to individuals all over the world” via cutting-edge know-how to complement lives. JVCKENWOOD showcased modern 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, scent, and style—offering a deeply immersive, multi-sensory expertise.

AI Creates Music and Video Primarily based On Your Unconscious Emotional Response

On the JVCKENWOOD sales space’s “Impression Leisure Space,”* we skilled an modern demo combining brainwave detection, human senses, and AI to create personalised music and video. Contributors are uncovered to stimuli, corresponding to pre-prepared movies, designed to evoke emotional responses. A brainwave headset then detects the feelings generated, and AI makes use of this knowledge to compose music and undertaking corresponding photographs in real-time. The end result, 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 Expertise 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, offered a demo developed by a crew of researchers with the assist of JVCKENWOOD. Suguru Goto, who can also be a composer and a media artist, showcased the modern use of brain-computer interface know-how for artwork creation on the JVCKENWOOD sales space.

How Did The Demo Work?

The crew used an Emotiv Perception EEG headset designed to assist researchers and engineers develop modern 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 turn into trusted options in neuroscience-based interface improvement.

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 consumer. The method started with a short 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 info.

Suguru Goto defined that the brainwaves are analyzed utilizing machine studying algorithms, which categorize the info into 28 emotional states, corresponding to pleasure or discomfort and sleepiness or alertness. 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.

After the participant accomplished the video classes, the system robotically generated music and video based mostly on his emotional responses. This demonstration highlighted how brainwave knowledge, 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 inventive 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 inventive idea of the undertaking, shared with me in a non-public video, entails exhibiting emotion-triggering movies on a monitor going through the participant, whereas the AI-generated visuals are projected onto the ground in a darkish room the place the individual is seated.

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

Though that is a formidable inventive analysis undertaking, Affiliate Professor Suguru Goto indicated that it presents vital potential for health-related functions, notably psychological well being care. 

I do know that Emotiv’s main aim is to offer high-quality EEG-based {hardware} and software program instruments to allow researchers to develop options that improve cognitive and mental health. This consists of creating modern approaches to music neurofeedback therapy.

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

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

“Hug Speaker” – photograph 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 based mostly on the participant’s unconscious emotional response to this sensory stimulation.

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

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