“There are huge cultural, geographic and individual differences in the way we express ourselves, raising concerns about the reliability of AI recognition tools, but also creating greater The question is whether facial expressions can be a reliable indicator of an individual’s inner emotional state.”
Human expressions are very complex and cannot be simply summarized into the elements of the expression pack.
Automated software for recognizing and analyzing faces has been controversial. Last year, Facebook shut down its decade-old photo recognition system.
The two companies’ approach to facial recognition technology represents a cautious and positive direction.
Face recognition-related technologies were once considered to have broad application prospects. For visually impaired patients, this may become an artifact for easy interpretation of visual information.
American emotion recognition technology giant Affectiva hopes its software can monitor drivers and identify emotions from their voices, body language and facial expressions. If you have severe road rage, will have road-hazardous behavior, or are unwell and are about to collapse on the steering wheel, their autopilot can take control of the car, take you to the nearest safety zone, and if necessary, Will also call for help.
Just this year, Intel also developed a plugin for emotion recognition. This plug-in can be used in online classrooms and aims to help teachers improve teaching quality by analyzing students’ facial expressions to obtain their real-time emotions.
For example, if a student is distracted, the teacher can remind the student to pay attention to the lecture in real time; when the student shows a bored expression, the teacher can also grasp the negative emotion of the student in time, so as to improve the teaching content.
Rendering of the Intel Sentiment Analysis plug-in, with human expressions tagged.
As soon as this plug-in came out, it caused a lot of controversy-
The first is the accuracy of this technical evaluation. It is not rigorous to judge a person’s mental state by capturing some facial expression information. “Fake smile”, such a smile obviously does not represent real emotions and attitudes.
Secondly, this technology is easy to label students. Student A is distracted in class, and student B has a negative attitude, but human emotions are complex and changeable. It is far more than just positive and negative. It can’t even use happiness, anger, sadness, disgust , surprise and fear of the “six points” to summarize. Once there is such a simple and crude stereotype, it will have the possibility of affecting the teacher-student relationship.
What kind of emotion does the clown’s smile represent?
Furthermore, everyone’s physiological structure and expression are different, and there are cultural differences, etc., and the expression of the same event is also different. In daily life, people are prone to misunderstandings. AI It’s easier to make mistakes.
In the end, even if you are distracted for a while, it does not mean anything. It is impossible for people to stay focused all the time, and there is no need to do so. The class itself is relaxed and relaxed, as long as it is not absent-minded throughout the whole process. Suspected of surveillance. For example, it is unimaginable to use similar technology for online office.
All in all, emotion recognition technology is indeed a field that requires ethical boundaries. If a person does not even have emotional freedom, it is too hard to live.
However, spacesrobot thinks of one area, and it is suggested that these manufacturers can study in depth – pet emotion recognition technology. After all, they are different species, and there are natural barriers, but the emotions of pets are definitely not as complicated as those of humans. I believe that the difficulty of research and development will be much lower, the market prospects should be good, and there will be no ethical disputes. Look forward to it!
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