By tapping into the user's brain using a small, wearable EEG device, the system, called Brain-In-The-Loop, can read the user's visual and auditory recognition signals, cognitive and mental states, and other human factors in real time. This information is then fed into the AI system, either for building an AI model using brain-generated labels, for an AI model update, or even for a joint decision between humans and machines.

Antoine Hide, CEO of Macnica ATD Europe, explains how it works: "Standard inspection processes by humans generate recurring brainwave patterns that can be learned by the InnerEye system which then automatically reacts upon detecting abnormal brainwave patterns up to 20 times faster than the human inspector is able to respond."

"Brain-In-The-Loop by InnerEye enables training and validating the AI model on the fly without the need to collect and annotate the data externally. It also allows companies to adopt a general AI model and further adjust and improve it according to their specific visual inspection criteria," added Innereye CEO Uri Antman.

Not science fiction, but proven technology

The technology has already been proven in various markets and applications, with a focus on visual inspection use cases, such as airport security checkpoints to speed up and improve decision-making by X-ray screeners. The screener's brain generates a unique brainwave pattern when it detects a threat in a piece of luggage being X-rayed. Innereye technology automatically detects this pattern and records a threat without the screener having to actively flag it. Following this method, the technology is capable of serving in numerous other applications in industrial inspection, data annotation, healthcare, agriculture, mobility or gaming.