Camera-Equipped Glasses Can Analyse the Expression of the Person You're Talking To
It's All About the Expression What's he really trying to say? Gert Germeraad via Wikimedia Sometimes, the look on someone's face says it all. More often, our facial expressions are nuanced. More often still, we misinterpret the bevy of information conveyed by the people's changing expressions. So a Cambridge researcher--with some help from an MIT colleague--set out to build a kind of decoder for facial cues. The result: a pair of glasses that deciphers what a person is feeling and transmit that meaning to the person wearing them. The glasses themselves are just a prototype. A set of frames is embedded with a camera the size of a grain of rice, which connects to a small computer about the size of a standard deck of playing cards. Tracking 24 points on the face, the camera focuses on the person opposite, transmitting information about that person's facial tics to a software program that...