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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."
...now we can all learn to gurn like a bunch of retards as we desperately try (and fail) to fast-forward through the FBI Warning on pre-recorded media or through the ads in self-recorded stuff. Not only have they got us by the balls by taking away our right to use our own bought content fairly but now they can make us do tricks for their amusement. They won't be able to see us doing it in our own homes of course (not yet anyway) but I'm sure the mere thought of us contorting and spasming our faces at every 12 minute interval will have them in stiches.
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