Face Detection

If humanoid robots are ever going to fully integrate in society, they're going to need to get good at reading our emotional states and responding appropriately. A new wearable from researchers in Korea could help them do just that.

Engineers at Cornell University have developed a new wearable device that can monitor a person’s facial expressions through sonar and recreate them on a digital avatar. Removing cameras from the equation could alleviate privacy concerns.

Last year we looked at an interesting research project from scientists at Cornell University seeking to use wearable cameras to track facial expressions, and the technology has now taken on a more practical design in the form of the NeckFace.

A new technology, called transdermal optical imaging, can turn your smartphone into a device that can measure your blood pressure by analyzing a short video of your face. The University of Toronto-led research has demonstrated the system is 95 percent accurate and an app is already in development.

​A restaurant chain in the United States is testing out an AI-enabled self-ordering kiosk that uses facial recognition to identify customers and recall their favorite food orders. Is this the future of fast food ordering or an strange gimmick that people will not embrace?

A team from the University of Bradford has developed a new technique for aging faces in photographic images, which could help those searching for persons that went missing as children years ago.

Software developer Krush's is using SXSW to call attention to two new face-reading apps: Emotit For President and Heystax.

We keep hearing about systems designed to let drivers know when they've made mistakes. Brain4Cars, however, takes yet another approach. It monitors drivers to determine when they're about to do something wrong, so it can warn them not to.

Face detection software has slowly crept into mainstream use, but new research looks set to move the technology on significantly. Scientists have come up with a new approach that can regsiter faces at any angle, even when partially hidden, making it more difficult than ever to avoid being detected.

Personal security cameras are already widely available to help us monitor activity at our homes. Most simply record what's happening, and cannot actively flag up any unusual activity. The Netatmo Welcome, however, uses facial recognition to provide alerts about who is in your house.

Over a number of years, researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed software to measure human emotion through face detection and analysis. Now the team has repurposed the software as an app for Google Glass, with a view to bringing its emotion-detecting technology to life.

Have you ever wished you were an alien or a shark? Well, sorry, but you're never going to get to be one. The free Nito app, however, does let you appear as those characters or others, in recorded 15-second videos.