A horse walks into a bar. Asks the bartender… Okay, this post is not about lame jokes, but about trying to forecast stock markets with the help of facial recognition. A duo from Strathclyde University thought they could use facial expressions in stock market videos to analyse the sentiment in markets. Intuitively, this may work because we famously convey more information nonverbally through gestures and facial expressions than through language. So instead of creating a market sentiment indicator from written news reports as others have done, why not look at faces?
Why the long face?
Why the long face?
Why the long face?
A horse walks into a bar. Asks the bartender… Okay, this post is not about lame jokes, but about trying to forecast stock markets with the help of facial recognition. A duo from Strathclyde University thought they could use facial expressions in stock market videos to analyse the sentiment in markets. Intuitively, this may work because we famously convey more information nonverbally through gestures and facial expressions than through language. So instead of creating a market sentiment indicator from written news reports as others have done, why not look at faces?