Your face's computer!!

Ohio State's Facial Regonition Software and You

As humans we are able to do an unheard of(outside of a super computer) amount of processes through our

brain without thinking about it. We are able to tell if someone is angry or happy or sad and everything in between to a decent degree. Researchers at Ohio Sate University have found a way for computers to recognize twenty-one different facial expressions determining the persons mood, they have also been able to track micro movements in the muscles of the face; what some see as your feelings betraying your face, acting that something is okay but your face looks sad or angry. This may seem small or even useless to some but the amount of processes and thought that goes into the algorithms and visual recognition software is nothing short of state of the art. We as humans do all these things in a blink of an eye without thinking twice about how we come to some of our conclusions, we see it as second nature or instinct.

This new facial recognition has the potential to be used in anything from law enforcement to advertising. If you were able to use this software in a prison setting you may be able to stop an attack or even riot by picking out and removing the people who are exhibiting the signs of aggressive behavior. Another use in law enforcement would be using it to analyse someone who is giving a testimony in court and see if the person is up to no good or if they're being sincere. In the advertising business it could be used in study groups or public displays to see and judge peoples reaction to certain things and to adjust the advertisement to location or may be even personal preference one day.

In computer science this could lead to more personalized software where you have web-cam and this program runs then our programs changes your background to emulate the color of your feelings or to combat them with an opposite color. This software may also be used to evaluate teachers or even better for teachers to evaluate themselves and see where student may be drifting off during a lecture so they will know when they need to change pace or tone. It could also track when the students were most engaged or interested in the subject, if most of the class doesn't understand something it is showing on there faces this software could make a note of it in the recording and inform the teacher which then can come back the next day and review it. This software could have an infinite number of uses from law, business and education.

Some can see this as an invasion of privacy, they don't want there feelings to be read and recorded as

Anon453 it may be just a little to aggressive for a company or computer to do to there clients/users. Then again advertisements could be tailored to you and how you're feeling at that time. In a CS point of view I see this as just another functionality that can be implemented and just added to the repertoire of already useful tools to aid in the ever evolving field of human computer interactions.

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