Will help also people suffering from autism, visual impairment.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BANGALORE: Even as the tech industry is in the throes of heated discussions on whether wearable gadgets are a threat to privacy, a few scientists in Germany have made a new app that enables Google Glass to detect human emotions. The app understands human emotions by scanning the facial expressions. The creators of the app also claim that it can recognise gender and age.
The new google glass app is a forerunner in real-time face detection and the researchers in Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits have named the face detection system as SHORE.
When SHORE is introduced in Google Glass, the integrated camera in it will detect the faces and analyze facial expressions to determine age, gender and emotions.
The researchers have confirmed that the app cannot determine identity of people and the data will not go out of the device as the detection is done inside the Google Glass’s integrated CPU.
The so-called glass app is opening up new possibilities for people who are suffering from autism as they have difficulties interpreting expressions of others. When the app is installed in Google Glass, emotions of the other person will appear in its display field, making it easy for the user to interpret emotions.
The app also has an audio description feature which will be handy for the visually impaired as they will get oral details of the person standing near to them.
Face recognition systems are yet to make a visible impact in the tech arena. If the researchers put in effort to expand the reach of the app to areas like gaming and market research analysis, we could see yet another digital advancement in the near future.