Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.
Our Favorite Story of the Week
Can Facebook be used to regulate emotions?
Scientists at The Ohio State University found that when we are in a bad mood, we tend to look for facial expressions of people that are less happy than we are at the moment. Research of this type will help propel the use case for facial emotion detection.
"When people are in a negative mood, they start to show more interest in the less attractive, less successful people on their social media sites"
More Facial Recognition News
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The European telecom company Orange has an interesting demo using facial detection to let you have a video chat with your future self. Works best on the Chrome browser.
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Can facial recognition detect faces in art?
Scientists are starting to understand how humans recognize faces within paintings, even abstract cubist paintings, by observing how machine learning in computer vision fails at the same task.
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Maybe Playstation and Xbox still have a ways to go?
Recall back a few weeks ago we talked about the ability to model your own face within the NBA2K15 basketball game for Xbox One and Playstation 4. Well, it looks like there are at least a few folks getting some interesting results to say the least.
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Kairos Update
Product Hunt Miami
UPDATE: RSVP SOON! THIS EVENT IS FILLING FAST, SPACE IS RUNNING OUT!
Kairos is proud to be sponsoring and organizing Product Hunt's Miami meet up on 10/17 at The Lab Miami.
A recent Y Combinator alum, Product Hunt has rapidly become the best place on the internet for discovering the latest mobile apps, websites and tech creations.
Come join us to meet fellow product hunters, local startups and NewMe’s Angela Benton for a conversation on Product Hunt, how West Coast success stories are created and how they can be replicated locally. NewMe will offer $140K in prizes to the startup that receives the most upvotes from the audience.
Oh, did we mention there will be free chicken and waffles?
The event is free but space is limited so don’t forget to RSVP.
We hope you can make it!
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As always, if you are creating something cool or interesting with the Kairos API let us know and we will feature it in a future newsletter or on the website. No matter what, we would love to hear your feedback.
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