Rather, T's voice, face, movements, and expressions would be fed into an AI database "to better understand and express human emotions." That database would then help train "virtual avatars" for Meta, as well as algorithms for a London-based emotion AI company called Realeyes. The "emotion study" ran from July through September, specifically recruiting actors. The project coincided with Hollywood's historic dual strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA). With the industry at a standstill, the larger-than-usual number of out-of-work actors may have been a boon for Meta and Realeyes: here was a new pool of "trainers"--and data points--perfectly suited to teaching their AI to appear more human.

Headquartered in London, Realeyes is an eye-tracking and emotion measurement platform that uses AI and machine learning to gain insight into human behavior and expression. Their clients include Buzzfeed, Coca-Cola, Conde Nast, eBay, Mars, and Publicis Groupe, among others. Realeyes uses front-facing cameras, computer vision and machine learning technologies to detect attention and emotion among opt-in audiences as they watch video content. ClickZ recently spoke with Max Kalehoff, VP of Marketing & Growth for Realeyes to discuss the company's innovative technology and the capabilities they bring to marketers and publishers. Kalehoff learned about Realeyes after co-leading a panel presentation with Realeyes's CEO at the Sustainable Brands Conference in 2017.

The report presents an in-depth assessment of the Artificial Intelligence-Emotion Recognition including enabling technologies, key trends, market drivers, challenges, standardization, regulatory landscape, deployment models, operator case studies, opportunities, future roadmap, value chain, ecosystem player profiles and strategies. The report also presents forecasts for Artificial Intelligence-Emotion Recognition investments from 2019 till 2025. The Global Artificial Intelligence-Emotion Recognition Market is expected to grow from USD 813.56 Million in 2018 to USD 1,890.67 The positioning of the Global Artificial Intelligence-Emotion Recognition Market vendors in FPNV Positioning Matrix are determined by Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) and placed into four quadrants (F: Forefront, P: Pathfinders, N: Niche, and V: Vital). The report presents the market competitive landscape and a corresponding detailed analysis of the major vendor/key players in the market.

It is early July, almost 30C outside, but Mihkel Jäätma is thinking about Christmas. In a co-working space in Soho, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Realeyes, an "emotion AI" startup which uses eye-tracking and facial expression to analyse mood, scrolls through a list of 20 festive ads from 2018. He settles on The Boy and the Piano, the offering from John Lewis that tells the life story of Elton John backwards, from megastardom to the gift of a piano from his parents as a child, accompanied by his timeless heartstring-puller Your Song. The ad was well received, but Jäätma is clearly unconvinced. He hits play, and the ad starts, but this time two lines – one grey (negative reactions), the other red (positive) – are traced across the action.

Bingeing your favourite boxset will be more enjoyable if you're watching it on a modern TV screen, new research suggests. Identical twin brothers were monitored by AI as they sat down to enjoy the same episode of Game of Thrones in separate rooms on different TV sets. Experimenters found that the sibling watching on the most up to date screen displayed the greatest physical and emotional responses. Bingeing your favourite boxset will be more enjoyable if you're watching it on a modern TV screen, new research suggests. Realeyes' AI platform analysed the facial expressions, head movements and body language from more than 144,000 frames of video footage captured of each twin.

Artificial emotional intelligence, or "emotion AI," is emerging as a key component of the broader AI movement. The general idea is this: It's all very well having machines that can understand and respond to natural-language questions, and even beat humans at games, but until they can decipher non-verbal cues such as vocal intonations, body language, and facial expressions, humans will always have the upper hand in understanding other humans. And it's against that backdrop that countless companies are working toward improving computer vision and voice analysis techniques, to help machines detect the intricate and finely balanced emotions of a flesh-and-bones homo sapiens. One of those companies is Realeyes, a company that helps big brands such as AT&T, Mars, Hershey's, and Coca-Cola gauge human emotions through desktop computers' and mobile devices' cameras. The London-based startup, which was founded in 2007, today announced a fresh $12.4 million round of funding from Draper Esprit, the VC arm of Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo, Japanese VC fund Global Brain, Karma Ventures, and The Entrepreneurs Fund.

A system using artificial intelligence for advertisers to determine the amount of attention their ads will receive before launch has been introduced by Realeyes, an emotion AI company. The system uses webcams to monitor consumer behaviors, such as eye movements, blinking, yawning and head movements, creating metrics showing the volume and quality of attention to the ad content. The tool, created in collaboration with AI experts from Imperial College London, uses webcams to measure attention the same way a human would do, according to the company. The system would be used with consumer panels in advance of an ad launch. "For advertisers, the cost of going unnoticed is a price too high to pay," stated Mihkel Jäätma, CEO and co-founder of Realeyes.

Imagine a world in which machines interpret the emotional state of humans and adapt their behavior to give appropriate responses to those emotions. Well, artificial emotional intelligence, which is also known as emotion AI or affective computing, is already being used to develop systems and products that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects (with an "a," not an "e"). In psychology, an "affect" is a term used to describe the experience of feeling or emotion. If you've seen "Solo: A Star Wars Story", then you've seen the poster child for artificial emotional intelligence: L3-37. Lando Calrissian's droid companion and navigator (voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) instigates a slave revolt to escape from Kessel, but is severely damaged during the diversion.

The study involved 149 ads across 35 brands and 22,334 people in six countries. Realeyes measured how people felt while they watched the ads by using artificial intelligence to analyse their facial expressions through their webcams (with their consent). The study was designed in collaboration with the Mars Marketing Laboratory at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science. Realeyes' emotion data was cross-referenced with Mars, Incorporated's known sales lift data for each ad to investigate the relationship between emotions and sales performance. This created the largest emotional dataset linked to real business outcomes currently in existence.

A study by Realeyes and Mars, Incorporated has revealed emotion measurement technology can distinguish between ads which deliver high or zero/low sales lift with 75% accuracy. The study involved 149 ads across 35 brands and 22,334 people in six countries. Realeyes measured how people felt while they watched the ads by using artificial intelligence to analyse their facial expressions through their webcams (with their consent). The study was designed in collaboration with the Mars Marketing Laboratory at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science. Realeyes' emotion data was cross-referenced with Mars, Incorporated's known sales lift data for each ad to investigate the relationship between emotions and sales performance.