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Leif Larsen
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Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering, he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems, for the most part, in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years, he has worked as a developer, developing and maintaining geographical information systems, working with .NET technology. Today, he is working with a start-up, developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time, he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world. You can find out more about him by checking out his blog, "Leif Larsen", and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).
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Knowing your mood using the Emotion API


The Emotion API allows you to recognize emotions from faces, both in images and videos.

Research has shown that there are some key emotions that can be classified as cross-cultural. These are happiness sadness, surprise, anger, fear, contempt, disgust, and neutral. All of these are detected by the API, which allows your applications to respond in a more personalized way, by knowing the user's mood.

We will learn how to recognize emotions from images first, so our smart-house application can know our mood.

Getting images from a web camera

Imagine that there are several cameras around your house. The smart-house application can see how your mood is at any time. By knowing this, it can utilize the mood to better predict your needs.

We are going to add web-camera capabilities to our application. In case you do not have a web camera, you can follow along, but load images using the techniques we have already seen.

First we need to add a NuGet package to our smart...

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Leif Larsen

Leif Larsen is a software engineer based in Norway. After earning a degree in computer engineering, he went on to work with the design and configuration of industrial control systems, for the most part, in the oil and gas industry. Over the last few years, he has worked as a developer, developing and maintaining geographical information systems, working with .NET technology. Today, he is working with a start-up, developing a brand new SaaS product. In his spare time, he develops mobile apps and explores new technologies to keep up with the high-paced tech world. You can find out more about him by checking out his blog, "Leif Larsen", and following him on Twitter (@leif_larsen) and LinkedIn (lhlarsen).
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