PALO ALTO, Calif., March 02, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sighthound, Inc. today announced the release of a deeply learned emotion recognizer on its Sighthound Cloud API service. The emotion recognizer analyzes an image or video stream to find all faces and determine, for each face, the emotion along with an associated confidence level. Sighthound’s emotion recognizer has been trained to recognize seven different types of emotions.
Sighthound now has the world’s most accurate age detector, gender recognizer and emotion classifier, providing significantly more accurate results than the Microsoft Cognitive Services API.
Real Age Estimation
| Methods | Mean Absolute Error |
| Sighthound | 5.76 |
| Rothe et al. | 7.34 |
| Microsoft | 7.62 |
| Face++ | 11.04 |
Emotion Recognition Accuracy
| Methods | Accuracy | |
| Sighthound | 76.1% | |
| Microsoft | 61.3% | |
Gender Recognition Accuracy
| Methods | Accuracy | |
| Sighthound | 91.00 | % |
| Microsoft | 90.86 | % |
| Rothe et al. | 88.75 | % |
| Levi and Hassner | 86.80 | % |
| Kairos | 84.66 | % |
| Face++ | 83.04 | % |
Full benchmark results with academic references and white paper are available here:
https://www.sighthound.com/technology/age-gender-emotion/benchmarks
Alongside the developer API, Sighthound released a demonstration version of the emotion recognizer tool on its website today for testing.
Sighthound makes it easy for developers to get started by offering free tutorials, sample code, and documentation to help integrate its APIs into their own applications.
Developers can use the free Sighthound Cloud API at https://www.sighthound.com/products/cloud. Paid accounts (Basic, PRO, and Enterprise) have access to production servers for commercial use and begin at $49 per month.
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