Demo of emotion recognizing engine

Tech demo of our project called eMotion. It's an emotion parsing application with a goal to provide emotional feedback to the computer. An idea before its time that nobody understood. part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OctKJw6AjUk

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• emotion
• recognition
• emotional
• computer
• interface
• parsing
• face
• segmentation
• detection

[VigilantnotMilitant]

IMHO yr code totally kills the entire business model of Emotiv. Why spend $300 on a brain interface when you can just have a ubiquitous web cam parse your facial expressions?

[1OOOO1O]

@VigilantnotMilitant Yeah, but nobody saw enough value in it to invest real money into it :(

[VigilantnotMilitant]

Is this software open-source? Is it available? Are you familiar with the self-quantification movement?

[1OOOO1O]

@VigilantnotMilitant it is not open-source and no, I'm was not aware of self-quantification movement up to this point. We submitted this project into Microsoft's Imagine Cup contest way back in 2007 and nobody understood what we tried to accomplish. Unfortunately, I don't think the terms of the competition allow us to share the code.

[VigilantnotMilitant]

@1OOOO1O Nobody understood the use cases for this technology or no one valued those use cases or no one saw your team as making valuable progress towards those use cases? I'm sorry for you if it's any of these. The good news is if it's the first or second scenario, I can think of a bunch of valuable use cases. Bummer that Microsoft vaulted off yr code :( Can the Kinect read facial expressions? If it can't your code might spread its wings in a software update.Last qstn, how many hrs of coding? :)

[1OOOO1O]

@VigilantnotMilitant Nobody understood the use cases. sadly, everyone thought of it as yet another chat program, because our demo was a chatting program that with animated emotions, parsed in real time beside it. Use cases such as group emotion supervision(think 100+ people), avatars, learning assistance, emotional feedback, etc. etc were overheard.

Kinect can't read it by default, but of course you can make it. Should be a lot easier with depth perception too.

[VigilantnotMilitant]

Anyway here's an emotion of my own I had while watching this :)

[zeleftikam]

Awesome, now my computer will be able to tell when I'm ticked off at it. This information could be included in the crash report sent to the manufacturer. "Face scan indicated that the user was very sad when his data was lost."