how to detect smile of a person ??

how to detect the smile of the person. whats the technology involved behind this??

[Jan]

A child of an age of several minutes will beat any Matlab implementation. Therefore I'm in doubt, that there could be a any purpose to let Matlab do this.

[Ryan]

I looked into this in the past and children are expensive, Jan. There's also the obligation to feed them, house them and what not. Matlab licenses are (at least for the time being) still cheaper.

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

Hi Jan & Ryan, I cant understand your discussions. I am developing academic projects for students.

[Jan]

@Siva: We had a question here about the automatic detection of age, gender and race. The purpose of the program has been the display of customer specific commercials in a shopping mall. This sounds ok, but I'm will not longer be convinced about the ethical correctness, when the method is used to manipulate my less than 16 year old children to buy a certain sort of beer. And exactly this happens in Germany. Therefore I'm always careful with any kind of biometric recognition methods.

[Walter Roberson]

Siva, the discussion here references previous discussion; see http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/answers/39545#answer_49322

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

Thanks Walter.. I shall check it

Answer 1

[Babak]

First you got to detect the line between the lips. After that you need to compute the arc angle of that line if it is caved towards up or down making the person look sad or happy. To detect a line in an image you can see the DEMO that involves finding the lines of the street's cars' lanes.

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

Thanks Babak. You gave a clear cut idea.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Since these are patented methods, they will be explained in the patents. That's the agreement in a patent: you get exclusive right to use it for 20 years, but the public gets to know how it's done (no secrets anymore). Have you searched the patent database: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PTXT&RS=smile&Refine=Refine+Search&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=smile+AND+camera

For just one example, US Patent 8170298: Method for detecting facial expression and repairing smile face of portrait photo

It's probably already in digital cameras. If not yet, then it will be soon.

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

Thanks Image Analyst

[Walter Roberson]

It is in the Nikon Coolpix series of cameras for the last 2 or so years. (I have one that has the feature.)

[Sivakumaran Chandrasekaran]

Thanks walter