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NeantHumain
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30 Nov 2004, 12:14 am

A new technology is under development that might make life just a little more difficult for us aspies: Computers learn to read our faces.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote:
Venayagamoorthy is part of a new effort at the University of Missouri at Rolla to identify facial expressions with computers armed with cameras. The group hopes the devices will help companies know if their workers are awake and give the government new tools to separate the sketchy from the merely scared.

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"When the immigration or customs officer is talking to him, all of a sudden it will come up on the screen - 'this guy is suspicious' - and the officer will do the next level of screening," Venayagamoorthy said.

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To add to its abilities to determine emotion, the group hopes to add analysis of a person's speech or gesture.


This could pose all kinds of problems for us because of our flat affect, monotonous voices, and clumsy body language. Even if we follow proper procedure and have no reason to be suspected, this software might label us as suspicious.

This is a disturbing trend. I'm worried. Are you?



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30 Nov 2004, 1:11 am

can anyone say thought police?
The software probably uses some of the same algorithms I use to recognise expressions in every day life and I know what their error rates are.
Many are worse than 50% accuracy and when you add people with AS into the mix, since we can't always communicate our expressions correctly the effective error rate probably increases to near 90%

I think this is an invasion of our rights myself.

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30 Nov 2004, 10:16 am

EGMaria2004 wrote:
can anyone say thought police?


Not quite as bad as that... but it's body language police. I don't know if I look suspicious, but if I feel like they're screening me, I will... I notice I get a lot more ticcy when police are near... it's like that part of me wants to say, "here I am, deal with it".



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30 Nov 2004, 11:39 am

I've been stopped in security zones for poor body language. I 'looked' angry or threatening. :roll:


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30 Nov 2004, 1:53 pm

8O Truly scary! I get stopped or followed quite often and I wonder if flat affect appears hostile or suspiciously casual to these people.

And you can't explain to a piece of software that you have AS... :roll:

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