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 ...

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 ...

Computer software that can detect the micro-expressions that humans often fail to pick up on is being developed at Oxford and Oulu Universities. Micro-expressions last between a 25th and a third of a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...