A few months ago, Microsoft put online an API (Application Programming Interface*allowing the estimation of a person's age in a photo… The Redmond-based company continues to work on intelligent photo analysis and now offers, within its Project Oxford, a new API that allows… detect emotions on a face from a photo.
The algorithm behind this piece of software detects all the faces present in a photo and returns for each of these faces a confidence index (between 0 and 1) for each of the 8 defined emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral attitude, sadness and surprise.
I did some tests with this image and the results are perfect in all 6 cases. The API always recognized the correct emotion with a confidence index always higher than 0.8.
One thing is certain, is that with such tools, we can imagine a lot of possible uses in many areas... developers will be able to have fun!
Developers might want to integrate these tools to create systems that marketers could use to gauge people's reactions to a product, movie or food. Or they could use them to create software, such as messaging apps, that would offer different options based on the emotion they recognize in a photo.
says Ryan Galgon, software project manager for Microsoft's Technology and Research group.
The Oxford Project is available at this address and if you want to directly test emotion recognition you have to go to Emotion Recognition.
API: Application Programming Interface or Programming Interface. It is a turnkey module that can be used by a developer in an application to provide it with a set of features provided by third-party software.
Hello, there is no link to test Emotion Recognition, because I can't find it on the net, maybe too old!?
Don't pay attention to the link, I forgot to delete it, it's from an old post.