Lie to me: reading hidden emotions

Microexpressions magnified at different levels IEEE researchers have studied micro-expressions: rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions that people do not intend to show. This is of extreme importance in forensic science and psychotherapy, and we all remember the TV show Lie to me, which focused on these micro-expressions (MEs). Unlike the pompous TV shows, real-life […]

B:IT.con 2018: Computer Vision Solutions with a Swedish-Croatian Twist

The city of Bjelovar, Croatia hosted their Technology & IT conference, B:IT.con, second year in a row. The conference’s mission is to connect and introduce members of the Croatian IT community, and beyond. It also strives to expand knowledge, present new technologies and innovations in the sector. This year, the conference had 13 presenters with 12 […]

Visage Technologies participated at ZINC 2018

Novi Sad, Serbia – 2018 marks the third anniversary for ZINC events, which include the Zooming Innovation in Consumer Electronics International Conference 2018 (ZINC 2018), which is sponsored by IEEE Serbia and Montenegro section and CE chapter and RT-RK Institute and RT-RK department at University of Novi Sad. ZINC Events provide symposiums, forums, seminars, talks, workshops, tutorials, product and prototype demonstration, […]

How to predict cuteness

“Cuteness” is a concept that received lots of attention not only from the vast population of the Internet, but from psychologists and neurologists as well. For example, usually brain activity (using fMRI, like in work of Kim and Hamann) is greater when the stimulus has infant-like characteristics, like big eyes, fat cheeks, or a large […]

Rolling in the deep: tracking zebrafish behavior

Neuroscientists and biologists have investigated zebrafish for quite a while, since they have much more in common than meets the eye. There is, of course, one obvious difference: they move in three dimensions while swimming. Therefore, it was interesting to track fish to collect information about the third dimension of depth, which is usually missing […]

Learning new tricks from old dogs: canine gaze tracking

Researchers from the University of Helsinki investigated the similarities and differences in people and dog gazing in interaction. There were various independent studies focusing on canine gazing, but this is the first study that did the comparisons under very similar condition, focusing on dogs’ visual attention in social scenes. The researchers tracked and recorded the eye […]