Affectiva YouTube demo
AI
emotion recognition
SHOW HN2016
69points
12comments
#553of 2,264 in 2016
Top 25%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Performance: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive accuracy at recognising expressions
From 2 comments
Really cool!The output had my emotions right 95% of the time. Looking forward to real life uses cases of this script.
siddarthd2919 on HNApparently when I laugh I show disgust, no wonder I'm no longer invited to dinner parties! I partly joke, but it did do a good job at distinguishing different expressions but…
dvcc on HN
Fun to see how it rates your expressions
From 1 comment
The interesting part for me was to see what it rated my expression when I believed to have a neutral emotion showing. It seems I look a little angry and contemptuous all the…
thoughtpalette on HN
Objections
Misreads expressions, e.g. laughing as disgust and grimace as joy
From 2 comments
Apparently when I laugh I show disgust, no wonder I'm no longer invited to dinner parties! I partly joke, but it did do a good job at distinguishing different expressions but…
dvcc on HNFor me, contorting my face into a horrible bared-tooth grimace was interpreted as "joy".
Turing_Machine on HN
Only works in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, not mobile Chrome
From 2 comments
Doesn't work on chrome mobile seems to think I'm Explorer as it advised me to download chrome, Firefox or Opera.
celticninja on HNYes, only Chrome, Firefox, and Opera browsers are supported.
jeffreylu9 on HN
Requests
Allow testing without playing the YouTube video
From 1 comment
Very nice experiment. It will be nice to be able to test it without playing the youtube video.
otto_ortega on HN
Better lighting or background handling
From 1 comment
make the background white, much better lighting conditions :) if only i found a youtube video that is more than "meh" to me... :)
anotheryou on HN
Questions
What is this and why does it need the camera?
From 1 comment
Can anyone explain that this is about? The website popped up with a request to use my camera (I declined - I don't know what this even is, wants to do etc). What is this trying…
darklajid on HN