Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Big Brother Knows How You’re Feeling


A company that develops crowd control weapons for the military and law enforcement personnel have now created an advanced ’Minority Report’ style facial – and emotion - recognition system.

The Fraunhofer Institute which receives over 70% of its funding from government bodies, have developed technology that they are calling a Sophisticated High-speed Object Recognition Engine (SHORE).

The system can recognise faces with 91.5% accuracy, determine gender with 94.3% accuracy and estimate age with a mean absolute error of 6.85 years, all in realtime .... http://rinf.com