Face Detection

A new system that measures blood pressure using a phone video is currently 95 percent accurate but has not yet been tested on a large variety of different skin tones

A short selfie video on your smartphone can now measure your blood pressure

A new technology, called transdermal optical imaging, can turn your smartphone into a device that can measure your blood pressure by analyzing a short video of your face. The University of Toronto-led research has demonstrated the system is 95 percent accurate and an app is already in development.

Facial recognition technology developed at the Fraunhofer Institute can detect human emotion (Photo: Fraunhofer Institute)

ADHD & Autism

Fraunhofer's Google Glass app detects human emotions in real time

Over a number of years, researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed software to measure human emotion through face detection and analysis. Now the team has repurposed the software as an app for Google Glass, with a view to bringing its emotion-detecting technology to life.

Researchers are working on software that will allow computers to recognize the emotions of their users (Image: Binghamton University)

Science

What humans really want - creating computers that understand users

Computer scientist Lijun Lin is working on software that will allow computers to recognize the emotions of their users.