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posted by janrinok on Saturday August 30 2014, @02:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the Glass-find-me-a-female! dept.

German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS have developed a Google Glass app that recognises faces, but not the identity of the person. Emotions, gender, and age are recognised, and no images are sent over a network to do so.

Sophisticated High-speed Object Recognition Engine (SHORE) is the name of the group's software, which processes video on the Google Glass CPU. All calculations are performed in real-time by the CPU. By participating in the Google Glass "Explorer Program" Fraunhofer IIS was able to test the smart eyewear. The Google Glass app was made possible by adapting and implementing the Fraunhofer IIS SHORE software library as Glassware.

A software library of data built on C++ analyzes the face. Information about the person—happy, sad, angry, surprised, age estimation, gender—is superimposed next to the face. SHORE can also do eye-blink estimation and valence (emotion) recognition.

The researchers said the database has over 10,000 annotated faces. In combination with structure-based features and learning algorithms, they said they can train so-called models that boast extremely high recognition rates.

CNET's Seth Rosenblatt said the organization sees SHORE as a communication aid for people, for example, on the autism spectrum who may have difficulties in identifying emotions. "Fraunhofer also points out that its app could be applied to market analyses and other more commercial uses," he wrote.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CRCulver on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:51AM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Saturday August 30 2014, @09:51AM (#87511) Homepage
    How does this software deal with the fact that while smiling in the West is a reliable indicator of happiness, in, say, South-East Asia smiling may be a strategy to hide embarassment or reduce conflict?
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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:55AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:55AM (#87519) Journal

    The obvious strategy would be to analyse whether the face looks European or Asian, and employ different interpretation algorithms based on that.

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    • (Score: 2) by CRCulver on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:52AM

      by CRCulver (4390) on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:52AM (#87532) Homepage

      The obvious strategy would be to analyse whether the face looks European or Asian, and employ different interpretation algorithms based on that.

      And what about the millions of Asian-looking faces living outside Asia who follow the facial-expression norms of the Western society around them?

      Furthermore, even within Asia the smiling thing is limited to certain regions, the inhabitants of which may not be easy or even possible to tell apart algorithmically.