A Computer That Reads Body Language

Scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have recently developed a method to which they enabled a computer that reads human body language and their movements on video in real-time. The computer is also able to read the pose of each individual's fingers. Scientists actually developed this method in collaboration with the Panoptic Studio. The Panoptic Studio is a two-story dome consist of 500 video cameras. They analyzed insights from experiments that now make it possible to detect the pose of a group of people using a single camera and a laptop computer. Currently, it is being used to improve body, face and hand detectors by jointly training them.