Using AI for facial recognition to understand emotion, gender and age.

Our face is a unique, intimate reflection of who we are. It represents our identity, character, emotions, age. Facial recognition has always been the domain of Sci-Fi. We can now write software that will recognise faces and understand emotion. This talk will explore how we can do that.

Our face is a unique, intimate reflection of who we are. It represents our identity, character, emotions, age. Our brains recognise different faces and their unique characteristics. Our faces are the primary point of contact, especially within the human race. Our emotions and facial expressions are part of every aspect of our lives - how we learn and communicate, how we understand one another, how we interact with each other. Yet in today’s world of technology our face and emotions is mostly absent from our digital interactions.

Facial recognition has always been the domain of science fiction. Up until recently, it has been difficult for the average developer to write software that will recognise facial difference, facial aspects and even emotion depicted by facial expression. Can we write software in C# to identify a picture, identify facial objects such as eyes, nose, ears, mouth hair, etc. and then identify emotion in that picture.

The human face can create about 5000 expressions. Can Facial Detection Software understand those expressions and identify emotion.

Technology is now available for us to write software that will recognise and identify faces and facial objects, understand emotion, and predict an proximate age.

This talk will explore how we can do that. We will write and demo software that will be able to recognise faces, identify emotion. Time permitting we will use this to explore Facial Bio-metrics. We will then look at different use cases and see how this technology can be used.

Amongst the various different responsibilities that I have, I also spearhead the AI R&D areas at our company, IQbusiness. Developing apps in the medical mobile space that make use of AI and bio-metric technology to give our clients the edge in the market. For me this technology is not only a passion but a way of life. Living and breathing. Finding new ways to improve the lives of people and the process of business and clients.

Why am I the best person to speak on this subject? Well probably because I am passionate about it. Also, because I am actively involved in developing software that makes use of this technology in commercial applications. Not only that, but I believe in empowering others to achieve greatness, and by demoing the ability to use this technology and the ease of use will empower and inspire developers to do things that they would not have dreamed of before.