Recognition

​At some time, we've probably all seen a photo of some great-looking place and thought "If I knew where that was, I'd go there." Well, the new Look&Book iOS/Android app can reportedly figure out where such photos were taken (within Europe, at least), and it proceeds to plan your flights.

​Although a whole band playing together may make a song what it is, sometimes it's interesting to know what an individual instrument within a band sounds like on its own. Thanks to a new system developed at MIT, viewers of musical performance videos should soon be able to find out.

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.

Bistro is an automatic cat feeder and health monitor that uses facial recognition technology to ensure the food is going to its intended recipient. It also monitors your cat's food and water consumption, along with its weight and eating habits.

Ever experienced road rage? What if an onboard emotion detection system could tell that you were getting annoyed and intervene? PSA Peugeot Citroen has teamed up with EPFL to develop an emotion detection system designed to recognize signs of irritation and fatigue in a driver’s facial expressions.

Gizmag visited Volvo's test facilities in Gothenburg to see its self-parking and autonomous driving capabilities first hand.

In the airwriting system, a sensor-equipped glove is used to identify letters drawn in the air by the wearer, which are then converted into digital text.

EyeSEe store mannequins have cameras and microprocessors in their heads, for gathering demographic data on shoppers.

A new video surveillance system is able to search through data on 36 million faces per second, looking for a match for a specific individual.

A group of Japanese researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a car seat that can identify drivers while they're sitting down.

Software created at Michigan State University is capable of matching faces in police sketches to those in mug shots.

Researchers have created a computer algorithm that creates 3D models based on 2D images of faces.