Compared with Microsoft's vision-based "Emotion API", which focuses on facial expressions, EQ-Radio was found to be significantly more accurate in detecting joy, sadness, and anger.
Participants appear to have detected joy less well during the fMRI experiment than as reported by Scheiner and Fischer (2011).
Their algorithm doesn't yet recognize confidence, or sarcasm, but what it does do (imperfectly, but better than the rest of the field) is detect fear, anger, joy and sadness in real time, without eating up so much processing power as to be impractical in a handheld device.
The system could also detect emotion, like joy, anger or sorrow, according to reports.
He was trying to sound dire about this, but I could detect a note of joy in his voice.
You'll detect a slight, sly joy urging a smile on his lips or sparkle in his eyes.
In St Paul's, the Guardian's Michael White detected stoicism rather than joy: "Few moist Kleenexes can have been left behind," he wrote.
Rousey never shows self-doubt, but you can detect a trace of it in the joy and disbelief that transform her face after she wins.
I was also able to take a photograph of a photograph of a hotdog on my computer monitor and joy of joys, the app detected it as a hotdog.
The startup claims that their technology can detect emotions like anger, fear, disgust, sadness and joy (as well as a lack of emotion).
