Lost the Remote? Use Your Face

coondoggie writes "A researcher has discovered a way to use facial expressions to speed and slow video playback. By using a combination of facial expression recognition software and automated tutoring technology Jacob Whitehill, a computer science Ph.D. student from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is leading the project that ultimately is part of a larger venture to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers. The researchers recently conducted a pilot test with 8 people that demonstrated information within the facial expressions people make while watching recorded video lectures can be used to predict a person's preferred viewing speed of the video and how difficult a person perceives the lecture at each moment in time."

Comments

I can't wait

[merreborn]

Great. Then you'll know when the kids who grew up with this technology get bored -- they'll subconsciously start to make the "fast forward" facial expression.

And when they mishear something, they'll make the "rewind" face.

I can't wait. It'll be hilarious.

Re:Obvious use

[HitekHobo]

This kind of feedback could have astounding implications when you consider a 'porn tree' that viewers branch down based on their unconscious response to the stimulus before them.

It might be just a small part of robotic teaching, but it could be industry changing for cyber-porn if someone actually developed the 'porn tree' and could get actors to play out a scene a couple of dozen ways with varying camera angles etc.

Re:I can't wait---not a Haiku

[Provocateur]

go threw it?

my mind explodes and i cringe

the clip fast forwards

What a waste!

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Facial recognition needs quite a bit of complex processing and very competent researchers. It is a pity that they're putting it into such a impractical application.

Hand gesture recognition makes a lot more sense.