BUFFALO, N.Y. — A joint study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, the University at Buffalo, and the University of Toronto has found that a computer–vision system can ...

When Brad Pitt lives his life backwards in the film "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and morphs from an old man to a small child, it wasn't just a matter of using a lot of make-up. Every single ...

NO AMTRAK: The Polar Express. “The Polar Express” is dazzling, funny, exciting, beautiful and, at times, a touch disconcerting. It’s Tom Hanks’ and director Robert Zemeckis’ computer-animated ...

Real and fake smiles can be tricky to distinguish, but researchers have now developed computer software that can spot false facial expressions. By analyzing the movement of the smile across a person's ...

Smile: Scientists develop software that can recognize emotions. July 7, 2008 — -- One of these days your computer will probably know what you are thinking before you know it yourself. The human ...

You know that feeling when someone lets you down and you’re angry yet disappointed at the same time? Or what about when you watch a gross-out comedy that leaves you feeling disgusted yet cracking a ...

You can tell when someone's faking a smile or pretending to be in pain, right? Sure you can. But computer scientists think they can build systems that do it even better. There's already a Google Glass ...

While facial recognition programs are increasingly being used for various purposes — including identifying London rioters — researchers are going one step further and designing programs that will be ...

A new computer model that can recognize 21 distinct facial expressions more than triples the previous number of documented expressions for different emotions, researchers report. The new program can ...