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...