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| Young Amitabh Bachchan is both angry and neutral, according to Microsoft’s emotion recognition engine |
November 13, 2014, NewsCrunch
Microsoft has released a new tool that will analyse facial expressions and identify emotions, which are conveyed by them.
you can go to its Emotion Recognition page and upload a photo. The emotion tool will analyse and assign values to eight core emotional states—anger, contempt, fear, disgust, happiness, neutral, sadness or surprise.
Microsoft has developed this tool not just to amuse you. It is part of Project Oxford, which is working to provide developers with machine learning tools that’ll help them build personalised apps.
So, how good is it? It is in beta stage and not very accurate. It assigns nearly similar angerand neutral values to the above photo of young Amitabh Bachchan, the famous angry face of India of the 70s.
So, how good is it? It is in beta stage and not very accurate. It seems to think the above photo of young Amitabh Bachchan, the famous angry face ofIndia of the 70s, is both angry and happy at the same time.
So, how good is it? It is in beta stage and not very accurate. It seems to think the above photo of young Amitabh Bachchan, the famous angry face of
Here are the values assigned for Amitabh Bachchan’s angry young man photo by Microsoft’s emotion recognition engine
Anger: 0.0776313543,
Contempt: 0.118609972,
Disgust": 0.07158525,
Fear: 0.0007974382,
Happiness": 0.0128688095,
Neutral": 0.702376366,
Sadness": 0.0123327859,
Surprise": 0.00379801355