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Coming Soon: Computers That Read Faces
Your computer may soon know when you're in a bad mood. Researchers have developed an algorithm that can recognize a person's facial expressions and categorize them as expressing anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise.
Researchers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Polytechnic University of Madrid's School of Computing worked with Madrid's King Juan Carlos University to develop a prototype software that can process a sequence of moving faces and recognize the person's facial expression. The software monitors facial movements in several parts of the face, examining up to 30 images per second. The data is compared to expressions captured from 333 sequences of people from the Cohn-Kanade database, with an 89 per cent success rate.
According to the researchers, applications that might take advantage of these capabilities include advanced human-computer interfaces, metaverse avatars and e-commerce.
Paul Williams, a software architect at LexisNexis Examen, believes the technology would make a great usability testing tool to help developers learn whether users are frustrated by the software or device.
"This kind of objective measurement would be far more useful and accurate than subjective measurements, such as surveys, questionnaires or even third-party observation," he says.
-Esther Schindler
Hanging Up on Landline
The mobile phone has finally passed the landline as the hardest communication technology for people to give up. It also beat out the Internet, television, e-mail and the BlackBerry (or other wireless e-mail devices).
People say it would be harder to give up:
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
| 2007 | 2002 | |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile phone | 51% | 38% |
| Internet | 45% | 38% |
| Television | 43% | 47% |
| Landline telephone | 40% | 63% |
| 37% | 35% | |
| Blackberry or wireless e-mail device | 36% | 6% |
China Emerges as Largest RFID Market
Radio frequency identification technology has generated considerable buzz among American businesses. However, the largest concentration of RFID applications in use isn't in the US Look instead to China.
The Chinese government's national identification card program is currently the biggest RFID project in the world in terms of overall value, according to the recent ID TechEx report, "RFID in China 2008-2018." The rollout has an overall estimated worth of $6 billion, which includes all the associated RFID tags and systems, such as card readers.
The Chinese ID card project began in 2005. Once it has been completed at the end of this year, nearly 1 billion government ID cards embedded with an RFID chip will have been issued, states a recent ABI Research report.
"Unfortunately, all good things must end," writes ABI's Research Director Michael Liard, noting the project's upcoming conclusion. "That one program generated significant revenue for local vendors and stood out in terms of its size and scope. However, China must prepare for RFID's next wave and the applications that will keep China in the RFID spotlight.
According to ABI Research, a wide range of application initiatives are on tap in China: transportation ticketing, animal tagging, anticounterfeiting, real-time location systems, asset tracking, e-ticketing and contactless payments. The total market revenue for all those projects in 2008 will reach nearly US$1.4 billion, states the report.
-Thomas Wailgum
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