Facebook Acquires Facial-Image-Analysis Firm FacioMetrics

Facebook is focusing on the face with its latest acquisition, facial-image-analysis outfit FacioMetrics.

Facebook is focusing on the face with its latest acquisition, facial-image-analysis outfit FacioMetrics.

The company was hatched at Carnegie Mellon University, and it released an application that detected emotions in people’s faces, IntraFace, which is no longer available via app stores.

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FacioMetrics founder and CEO Fernando De la Torre announced the acquisition on the company’s homepage:

We started FacioMetrics to respond to the increasing interest and demand for facial-image analysis–with all kinds of applications including augmented/virtual reality, animation, audience reaction measurement and others.

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