At Kairos we’ve built a series of technologies that allows gender detection in live video and images. Facial biometric technology is fascinating as it frequently emulates many of things that human beings do naturally.
We all see hundreds of faces every day. In most cases, we can tell at a glance whether they represent a male's face or a female's face. But how do we do it? What is there about a person's face that gives away their gender?
Suppose you are a researcher wanting to investigate some aspect of facial recognition or facial detection. One thing you are going to want is a variety of faces that you can use for your system. You could, perhaps, find and possibly pay hundreds of people to have their face enrolled in the system. Alternatively, you could look at some of the existing facial recognition and facial detection databases that fellow researchers and organizations have created in the past. Why reinvent the wheel if you do not have to!
Here is a selection of facial recognition databases that are available on the internet.
Let's try an experiment. Stand in front of a mirror, and look closely at your face. Smile. Physically, how has that face in the mirror changed?
Now frown. How has the face in the mirror changed now? What looks different from when you were smiling? How is it different from you were just standing with a neutral expression?
As a person, the expressions we see on a face are intuitive to us. You can automatically tell whether someone is smiling or frowning (or indeed if they are showing many other emotions) simply by looking at their face. But once again, I ask you, how?
This is a deeply personal blog post, written by Kairos in-house journalist, Andrew Loader.
I write this having just lost my best friend and mentor of more than 25 years, John Waldron.
On the night of his funeral I was suffering a disrupted sleep, remembering the good old days. The thing that struck me was just how vividly I visualised his face. There are few photos of John - he hated having his picture taken with a passion. Yet John's face will be forever ingrained in my mind: the cheeky grin, the vivid blue eyes, the well-worn leather-like complexion, the bushy grey beard (that only got trimmed for weddings and funerals), the nearly bald pate, with just wisps of hair around the edges, his absent teeth which added character to his smile.
What is Video Banking?
A recent trend has been the development of video banking. This is where customers have the opportunity to chat to banking staff using a remote video connection, whether embedded in an automatic teller machine (ATM), in video-equipped branches, or using their own internet-connected devices.