Introducing Opera Face Gestures

http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/

by anatoli • 17 years ago

27 10 17 years ago

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mtarnovan• 17 years ago

Sounds like april's fool to me :)

paraschopra• 17 years ago

Me too, but I really think it would be cool technology

swombat• 17 years ago

Come on, they have to try harder. Didn't even need to read the title to identify it as an April's fools.

adambyrtek• 17 years ago

Yes, but definitely quite a funny one!

jrussino• 17 years ago

Certainly an April fool's joke... however, work like this has practical applications for patients whose physical disabilities prevent them from using the traditional computer inputs. I did some work with mapping shoulder movements to control a powered wheelchair at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago during an internship in 2007, and I had the impression that there is a lot of room for improvement in current devices. One interface commonly used today is the sip-puff switch: http://www.techready.co.uk/Assistive-Technology/Sip-Puff-Swi... I wouldn’t be surprised if there were people doing serious work in developing facial gesture UIs.

robertk• 17 years ago

"Adult Web sites

Users visiting Web sites that contain adult content sometimes make unconscious facial expressions. If Opera keeps opening Speed Dial and Zooming In and Out, please be aware that this not a bug. It may be useful to disable Face Gestures for a better experience. Also remember that wiping your cache is recommend after visiting untrusted websites."

chunkyslink• 17 years ago

I read the first paragraph, watched the video and thought it was real (didnt even occur to me it was april 1st)

Tweeted it. Went back and read it properly. Realised it was april 1st. Do'h

PieSquared• 17 years ago

"By using an internal technology dubbed Face Observation Opera Language, we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser."

Face Observation Opera Language, eh?

ktharavaad• 17 years ago

The thing is that this is actually possible with the technology we have these days.

Look at some of the works done by Iain Matthews and Simon Baker at CMU here:

http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research_project_detail.html?project_i...

and you can see that they have already realized realtime face tracking with dense registration ( which allows expression recognition ) based on the LK-inverse composition algorithm applied to AAMs

Facinating stuff =)

caduardo21• 17 years ago

What if you can't blink with both eyes? Back to the mouse...

Introducing Opera Face Gestures

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