The Future of Facial Recognition

Ted Talks blog has delineated seven fascinating facts about the future of facial recognition via Alessandro Acquisti. To illustrate what he means, he focuses our attention on facial recognition software and a study he conducted in 2010, when about 2.5 billion photos were uploaded to Facebook in a single month, many of them tagged. For…

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Baby Emotions

Have you seen the viral video below? It’s already gotten over 21 million views and is rapidly spreading through the internet. The baby is 10 month-old Mary Lynne Leroux, who cries as her mother Amanda sings ‘My Heart Can’t Tell You No’, a song most recently popularized by Sara Evans. A recent Psychology Today article by…

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Beauty and the Face

Why is physical beauty so important in today’s society, especially in consumer marketing? Psychology Today reports on the unethical aspects of beauty as it is represented in main stream media.  They report that facial symmetry has been shown to be the key determinant in our estimating of what is seen as beautiful and what’s not.…

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Expression of the Month Winner

Thank you to all our great Expression of the Month photo submissions. We have chosen our Grand Prize Winner!!   Ellen Wright’s photo has been selected.   She will receive a signed copy of Dr. Matsumoto’s newest book, Nonverbal Communication: Science and Applications.   – See more at: https://www.humintell.com/?p=28421&preview=true#sthash.k19iykeI.dpuf  Thank you to all our great Expression…

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