Facebook Wants To Read Your Facial Expressions

‘One day, Facebook may be able to tell whether you’re smiling or grimacing at your distant cousin’s political rant.
This week, the company acquired an facial recognition analysis startup called FacioMetrics, which is known for its augmented reality capabilities and for making an app that recognized seven different emotions on people’s faces.
The startup, which announced the acquisition on its website, came out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Sensing Laboratory. FacioMetrics first garnered attention for its facial feature image analysis app, Intraface, last year. Intraface’s technology enabled real-time face tracking, pose and gaze estimation, and expression analysis, but it has now been removed from app stores. Its original branding was as a research tool that could help detect autism, measure audience engagement in public speaking scenarios, and help end distracted driving.’
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