{"id":94768,"date":"2019-08-14T12:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amazons-facial-recognition-software-can-now-spot-fear"},"modified":"2019-08-14T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:23:49","slug":"amazons-facial-recognition-software-can-now-spot-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/amazons-facial-recognition-software-can-now-spot-fear","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s facial recognition software can now spot fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-facial-recognition-software-can-now-spot-fear.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tags\/amazon\/\" data-annotation=\"true\" data-link-tracker-options='{\"action\":\"inline-annotation|Amazon|CNET_TAG|333\"}' data\u2014eamknmlclr=\"linkTracker\">Amazon\u2019s<\/a> controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facial-recognition-apple-amazon-google-and-the-race-for-your-face-facebook\/\">facial recognition<\/a> technology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/facial-recognition-overkill-how-deputies-solved-a-12-shoplifting-case\/\">called Rekognition<\/a>, has a new skill. It can now spot fear. The company says it recently launched updates to Rekognition\u2019s facial analysis features, including improved age estimation and the addition of fear to its emotion detection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have improved accuracy for emotion detection (for all 7 emotions: \u2018Happy,\u2019 \u2018Sad,\u2019 \u2018Angry,\u2019 \u2018Surprised,\u2019 \u2018Disgusted,\u2019 \u2018Calm\u2019 and \u2018Confused\u2019) and added a new emotion: \u2018Fear,\u2019\u201d according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/about-aws\/whats-new\/2019\/08\/amazon-rekognition-improves-face-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data\u2014eamknmlclr=\"externalLink\">update from Amazon<\/a> on Monday. \u201cLastly, we have improved age range estimation accuracy; you also get narrower age ranges across most age groups.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s controversial facial recognition technology, called Rekognition, has a new skill. It can now spot fear. The company says it recently launched updates to Rekognition\u2019s facial analysis features, including improved age estimation and the addition of fear to its emotion detection. \u201cWe have improved accuracy for emotion detection (for all 7 emotions: \u2018Happy,\u2019 \u2018Sad,\u2019 \u2018Angry,\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}