Show HN: Realtime emotion tracking in JavaScript

thoughtpalette · on July 1, 2016

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 time.

Dig the project.

dvcc · on July 1, 2016

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 maybe not assigning them to the correct one.

Turing_Machine · on July 1, 2016

For me, contorting my face into a horrible bared-tooth grimace was interpreted as "joy".

otto_ortega · on July 1, 2016

Very nice experiment. It will be nice to be able to test it without playing the youtube video.

celticninja · on July 1, 2016

Doesn't work on chrome mobile seems to think I'm Explorer as it advised me to download chrome, Firefox or Opera.

jeffreylu9 · on July 1, 2016

Yes, only Chrome, Firefox, and Opera browsers are supported.

siddarthd2919 · on July 2, 2016

Really cool!The output had my emotions right 95% of the time. Looking forward to real life uses cases of this script.

darklajid · on July 1, 2016

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 to do?

hartator · on July 1, 2016

Computer vision in JS?

jeffreylu9 · on July 1, 2016

Yes, it's a demo of Affectiva's JS SDK, tracking your emotions in real-time as you watch a YouTube video.

grimmdude · on July 1, 2016

Cool app. It's interesting to think about the idea of different content/ads being served to people based on their emotion.

anotheryou · on July 1, 2016

make the background white, much better lighting conditions :)

if only i found a youtube video that is more than "meh" to me... :)