If there is one thing that separates humans from machines, it would be this – we humans do have feelings and emotions, and that simply cannot be broken down into the binary code. Machines, however, do look as though they now have the capability to be able to sense what we humans are feeling at the moment through the analysis of photos – and perhaps in the future, via real time video feed. Microsoft is the one behind this new “emotion-sensing platform” which picks out human feelings through analyzing photos.
Microsoft Research program manager Ryan Galgon claims that a camera with this new technology is able to inform film producers at any point in time as to the number of people in the audience who had a reaction while watching a movie, with such a camera pointed in the direction of the audience. Store owners could use such a camera equipped with similar technology to check out how customers react to product displays, and the ilk. It all really boils down to how the developers are going to implement this technology.
This is all part of the labor of love that is known as Project Oxford, where Microsoft makes good use of its repository of machine learning and artificial intelligence experience in order to come up with sophisticated tools that are able to be used by just about anyone without cost.
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