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Faception facial personality profiling

Faception is a tool that uses computer vision and machine learning to analyse facial images, profile people and make real-time predictions about their personality, behaviour and character t raits. T he technology is able to "analyze faces from video streams (recorded and live), cameras, or online/offline databases, encode the faces in proprietary image descriptors and match an individual with various personality traits and types with a high level of accuracy," according to its developers of the same name. Faception says it has developed 15 “classifiers,” each of which describes a certain personality type or trait - including Academic researcher, Bingo player, Terrorist and Paedophile. The company claims its technology is used in public places such as airports, train stations, government, public buildings, and border control areas. Face perception Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face . Source: Wikipedia 🔗

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