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Emotion recognition: Can AI detect human feelings from a face?


Emotion recognition: Can AI detect human feelings from a face?
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By: Madhumita Murgia
The market for the technology is growing rapidly despite questions from scientists about whether it works.
For most of the past year, students at True Light College, a secondary school for girls in Kowloon, Hong
Kong, have been attending classes from home. But unlike most children around the world forced into home-schooling during the pandemic, the students at True Light are being watched as they sit at their desks. Unblinking eyes scrutinise each child s facial expressions through their computer s cameras.
The eyes belong to a piece of software called 4 Little Trees, an artificial intelligence program that claims it can read the children s emotions as they learn. The program s goal is to help teachers make distance learning more interactive and personalised, by responding to an individual student s reactions in real time. ....

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