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.
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...