SOFTWARE DETECTS LIES BY ANALYZING EYE MOVEMENTS

by Theresa , Monday, April 02, 2012, 22:24

A computer program that analyzes eye movements is better at identifying deceitful people than expert human interrogators, say the University at Buffalo computer scientists who developed the software. Details of the work were presented at the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition.

"What we wanted to understand was whether there are signal changes emitted by people when they are lying, and can machines detect them? The answer was yes, and yes," said researcher Ifeoma Nwogu, an assistant professor at UB's Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors.

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