Feeling happy or sad? Your computer will tell you!

Computer scientists used recent developments in artificial intelligence to create smarter apps that can identify facial expressions. The  Microsoft Project Oxford team has plans to release public beta versions of new tools that allow developers take advantage of new capabilities, including an emotion tool.

Emotions, video, spell check and facial hair

The system can learn to recognize traits from a training set of pictures it receives, and then it can apply that information to identify facial features in new pictures. The emotion tool recognizes eight core emotional states – anger, contempt, fear, disgust, happiness, neutral, sadness or surprise.