Jan 18, 2004, 07:30 PM
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Bet ya cant look me in the eye and say that
It may not be long before you hear airport security screeners ask- Do you plan on hijacking this plane? A U.S. company using technology developed in Israel is pitching a lie detector small enough to fit in the eyeglasses of law enforcement officers, and its inventors say it can tell whether a passenger is a terrorist by analyzing his answer to that simple question in real-time.
The company showed plain sunglasses outfitted with the technology at the 2004 International CES in Las Vegas earlier this month. The system used green, yellow and red color codes to indicate a true, maybe or false response. At its CES booth, V Entertainment analyzed the voices of celebrities like Michael Jackson to determine whether they were lying.
Besides lie detection, the technology can also measure for other emotions like anxiety, fear or even love. Indeed V Entertainment offers Pocket PC love detector software that can attach to a phone line or work from recorded tapes. It's available for download. Instead of color-coded LEDs, a bar graph on the display indicates how much the caller to whom you are speaking loves you. V Entertainment claims the love detector has demonstrated 96 percent accuracy. A PC version is due next month.
The heart of Nemesysco's security-oriented technology is a signal-processing engine that is said to use more than 8,000 algorithms each time it analyzes an incoming voice waveform. In this way it detects levels of various emotional states simultaneously from the pitch and speed of the voice.
The law enforcement version achieved about 70 percent accuracy in laboratory trials, according to V Entertainment, and better than 90 percent accuracy against real criminal subjects at a beta test site at the U.S. Air Force's Rome Laboratories.
More on How it works at EE Times
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