How people share and communicate is changing and things like masks and other effects allow people to express themselves in fun and creative ways. Facebook has acquired emotion detection start-up FacioMetrics to push its artificial intelligence (AI) research into building facial gesture controls. FacioMetrics developed an app called Intraface that can detect seven different emotions in people's faces. "Future applications of deep learning platform on mobile: Gesture-based controls, recognize facial expressions and perform related actions," Facebook wrote. The social media giant will use FacioMetrics to enhance its Snapchat selfie Lens-style augmented reality face masks that are making their way into its videos and Live broadcasts, the report added.
