The facial analysis system behind the recently featured ‘Laughing Mirror‘was developed by the Dutch firm VicarVision [* see note below] A description of their system, called ‘FaceReader ™ ‘ was published in Proceedings of Measuring Behavior, 2005 (Wageningen, 30 August – 2 September 2005) ‘The FaceReader: Online facial expression recognition‘ Since then the computer code has […]
Tag: software
Grace Murray Hopper interviewed
Grace Murray Hopper, computer pioneer (and by many accounts the person who coined the term “bug” in relation to computers), interviewed by David Letterman in 1986, not very long after she retired from the US Navy: (Thanks to investigator Anusree Banerjee for bringing this to our attention.) UPDATE: The video has been yanked from YouTube. […]
Computer bugs: Born in the wee hours
Computer programmers create bugs more frequently in the wee hours of the morning than at other times — or so they say. They are the authors of a study presented this past weekend in Honolulu, at the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories: “Do time of day and developer experience affect commit bugginess?” by Jon Eyolfson, […]
Auto-detection of male genital flashers
Men who drop their trousers and display their genitals on the internet can now be detected more reliably and automatically, is the thrust of this new study: “SafeVchat: Detecting Obscene Content and Misbehaving Users in Online Video Chat Services“, Xinyu Xing, Yu-Li Liang, Hanqiang Cheng, Jianxun Dang, Sui Huang, Richard Han, Xue Liu, Qin Lv, […]