Emotion Recognition - services Microsoft, which recognizes people's emotions in images

Project Oxford - Microsoft project that provides developers with the possibility of machine learning algorithms. These API company has already demonstrated in comic Services How-Old and TwinsOrNot, received in his time popularity among users. Recently the company has made them service Emotion Recognition, which is able to detect the emotions of people in the pictures.

Principle of operation Emotion Recognition similar to predecessors: upload photos, and engine algorithms analyze the presence of people on it, after which the facial expressions suggestive of emotions. Given a test mode of operation of this instrument, the results are often inaccurate and unexpected, so novelty and had a viral effect.

The algorithm analyzes the face of the presence of eight different emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, joy, peace, sadness and surprise. Results may vary from zero to unity. Besides harvested test shots, you can upload your own. The only requirement of the square, which must fit the face, should not be less than 36 pixels, and the photo size should not exceed 4 MB.

In the future, the novelty certainly find application in other products of the company, as happened with How-OldWhich is integrated into the Bing search engine. In addition, Emotion API available to third-party developers, which in the future will ensure the emergence of applications with similar functionality.