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Facial Recognition Market to See 27.7% CAGR to 2018: Analysis of Emotion, Thermal, Mobile, Forensic, Facial Recognition

The global facial recognition market is estimated to grow from $1.92 billion in 2013 to $6.50 billion in 2018. This represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 27.7% from 2013 to 2018. In the current scenario, government and utilities are expected to be the largest adaptor for face recognition technology. In terms of regions, North America is poised to be the biggest market for face recognition. However, over the next five years, APAC will experience increased market traction, to become the biggest facial recognition market globally.

Google Glass Can Now Detect Emotions and Determine Someone?s Age

What if an app could reveal what the person you are having a conversation with is feeling? This Google Glass app, a soon to be launched smart eye-wear app not only does that for you but can also tells the person’s age. The emotion recognition software analyses that the video on the tiny computer hidden inside the Google eye-wear reveals emotions. It can gauge emotions such as anger, happiness, sadness, and surprise then displays this information on screen, media reports said.