The near future, computers will also get the mind-reading skills, through facial expressions interpret human emotions. Next summer, you will be able to watch the horror horror TV series as you want. Venture company Affectiva research and development of artificial intelligence software offers a large number of videos to choose from, when you look at iPad screen when camera is watching you.
On your face, the computer knows all
Software can read your emotional reaction to the video in real time. If your mouth continues to sag, or was scared to close my eyes, the story will speed up. If your eyes wide, mouth, sweetness and suspense stories stretch. As the entertainment company's developer Julian McCrea said, "is about to kill, but whether to keep tension depends on your own. "His studio with a large entertainment network to develop a TV series, he will face reading software Affdex Affectiva is called" incredibly high-tech products. "
McCrea was one of the first experimental external developer Affectiva developer tools. Affectiva allows the technology to track the user's facial expressions to interpret their feelings. From the MIT lab scientist Roz Picard and Rana El Kaliouby Waltham technology venture companies operating starting from 2009. Picard left the company, but 36 Kaliouby determination, far-sighted, has served as Chief Scientist. "If the technology is not integrated into every aspect of our lives, I will not stop. "
Colombia broadcasting company (CBS) use the software to collect audience feedback to determine whether new programs continue to be broadcast. In the 2012 presidential election, Kaliouby's team also tested the software records the voter feedback in an argument.
With $ 20 million venture in hand, the company has close cooperation with a number of partners to test their business applications. Now plans are open to all tools, Affectiva developers will be invited to conduct a 45-day free trials and licensing. El Kaliouby on "embed Affectiva" technology for a bold thought: "it can be used on your cell phone, car, refrigerator and is not on your face can feel your emotions seamlessly." It will pay attention to every detail on your face.
Millions of faces
El Kaliouby PhD in computer science at Cambridge University, and postdoctoral research at the MIT Media Lab, the core technology of Affectiva is one of her academic achievements, the starting point is to help children with autism. She became interested in industrial development, and the limited scope for autism research, so they turn to the business world. Valentino cases
Affdex is the company's signature software face a detailed model is established. Taking into account not only a smile folds of skin around the eyes, also taking into account details such as the frown lips sink. Affectiva entry in the algorithm of the 11 billion of those data points, collected from 2.8 million in 75 countries face.
With such huge amounts of data sets, El Kaliouby believe Affectiva will be able to accurately interpret the human emotion. The software is actually doing is decoding the human feelings. For example, when you see a cute little dog, your eyebrows will provoke, so will concentrate.
This software called facial action coding system, the system will classify 46 kinds of human facial movements for different permutations and combinations to identify human emotion. This system was born in the 1970 of the 20th century, people still use the eye muscles to assess the emotional state. It is very time consuming, "takes five minutes to encode the video for a minute," El Kaliouby said, "so we built algorithms to make it practice automation. "The software needs to be trained to identify different expressions, such as not the same two giggled the whole process" is like training a child understand what is Apple ". Valentino iPhone case
Do you dare to casually revealing facial expressions?
Five years later, the technology finally developed enough practical level. Company Affectiva built with video displays in the retail stores. If you smile at screen, the screen will give you a free chocolate samples. Technology venture company also to embed this software OoVoo video chat, chat created can be read from the emotion of "intelligent video".
But all potentials to develop Affectiva with its more widely, will need more than innovative developers. Trust is implicit and not made, the issues to be discussed. These data should not drain, may be dangerous for the users. Think about it, if you're a regular in front of embedded Affectiva software reveals the sad mood, software developers and sold information to the pharmaceutical company, what would happen?
El Kaliouby on this very serious concern. "We do not store any personal data about users, so no one can extract the information. "
Things that might be true, but as companies open to more developer tools, the company will need to monitor the software running in case of abuse, and the need to monitor the user's initial usage. They are aware of this, and feel that they can control the situation.
This technique is very good at reading emotions, people may need to watch their performance.
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