Amazon claimed this week its facial recognition software, Rekognition, can now detect a person's fear on top of accurately identifying other emotions.
Rekognition is used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis.
The company claims it can accurately identify seven emotions: happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted, calm and confused.Rekognition is one of many Amazon Web Services cloud services available for developers. It can be used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis, which identifies different expressions and predicts emotions from images of people's faces. The service uses artificial intelligence to "learn" from the reams of data it processes.
The tech giant revealed updates to the controversial tool on Monday that include improving the accuracy and functionality of its face analysis features such as identifying gender, emotions and age range.said in a blog postArtificial intelligence researchers have invested plenty of resources to try and read a person's emotions by analyzing their facial features, movements, voice and more.
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