One of my favorite SNL fake commercials is for a product called the Home Headache Test. "I feel fine," says a concerned Kevin Nealon, "but what if I have a really bad headache and don't know it?" The handy HHT test lets him know where he stands.
I couldn't help thinking of the skit when trying out an app called IntraFace from the Human Sensing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. The app uses an iOS- or Android-powered device's rear-facing camera and some nifty facial tracking technology to tell you how you're feeling. A real-time applause-o-meter style readout gives you your results based on five categories: sad, disgust, surprise, neutral, and happy.
You can play with IntraFace for free by downloading it from iTunes or Google Play.
The app is useless except as a fun demonstration and savvy PR tool for the Human Sensing Lab. But the facial image analysis technology that powers it, which is the work of a team led by the awesomely named Fernando De la Torre, an associate professor at CMU's Robotics Institute, is incredibly powerful and broadly applicable in a near-future when machines will be able to respond to human emotion and anticipate human needs.
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