In recent years there has been a growing interest in improving all aspects of the interaction between humans and computers with the clear goal of achieving a natural interaction, similar to the way human-human interaction takes place. The most expressive way humans display emotions is through facial expressions. Humans detect and interpret faces and facial expressions in a scene with little or no effort. Still, development of an automated system that accomplishes this task is rather difficult. There are several related problems: detection of an image segment as a face, extraction of the facial expression information, and classification of the expression (e.g.,in emotion categories).A system that performs these operations accurately and in real time would be a major step forward in achieving a human-like interaction between the man and machine.
The software is currently sold as part of the InSight Face Analysis Software Development Kit. Please visit www.sightcorp.com for more info.