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# Can Microsoft Help Us Read Artists’ Emotions? Microsoft recently stirred the internet by releasing a beta version of facial recognition technology on its [Project Oxford site][1]{: target="_blank"} that attempts to read emotions from pictures. Users upload photos and the system evaluates the depicted face based on eight emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise. I decided to run press photos from prominent figures in electronic music through Project Oxford to see if Microsoft's world-class machine learning techniques can give us any insight into their inner selves. ## Sven Marquardt literally shows zero fear. ## Levon Vincent's emotions range from contempt to fear. Sounds like a match. ## Scuba's kinda moody. ## Grimes shows a very modest palette of emotions in her recent press shot. Except for the red eyes. ## ## Marcel Dettmann is almost 100 percent neutral with a little anger and a wee bit of disgust. ## ##  DJ Koze feels it all. ## Missy Elliott's emotions almost match to the dot. ## ## Oneohtrix Point Never seems sad. ## Björk...wins. [1]: https://www.projectoxford.ai/demo/emotion#detection 
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    text: '<p>Microsoft recently stirred the internet by releasing&nbsp;a beta version of facial recognition technology on its <a href="https://www.projectoxford.ai/demo/emotion#detection" target="_blank">Project Oxford site</a> that&nbsp;attempts&nbsp;to read emotions from pictures. Users upload photos and the system evaluates the depicted face based on eight emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise. I decided to run press photos from prominent&nbsp;figures in electronic music through Project Oxford to see if Microsoft&rsquo;s&nbsp;world-class machine learning techniques can give us any insight into their inner selves.</p><h2>Sven Marquardt literally shows zero fear.</h2><h2>Levon Vincent&rsquo;s&nbsp;emotions range from&nbsp;contempt to fear. Sounds like a match.</h2><h2>Scuba&rsquo;s kinda moody.</h2><h2>Grimes&nbsp;shows a very modest palette of emotions in her recent press shot. Except for the red eyes.</h2><h2></h2><h2>Marcel Dettmann&nbsp;is almost 100 percent neutral with a little anger and&nbsp;a wee bit of disgust.</h2><h2></h2><h2>&nbsp;DJ Koze feels it all.</h2><h2>Missy Elliott&rsquo;s emotions&nbsp;almost match to the dot.</h2><h2></h2><h2>Oneohtrix Point Never seems sad.</h2><h2>Bj&ouml;rk&hellip;wins.</h2>'
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# Can Microsoft Help Us Read Artists’ Emotions? Microsoft recently stirred the internet by releasing&nbsp;a beta version of facial recognition technology on its [Project Oxford site][1]{: target="_blank"} that&nbsp;attempts&nbsp;to read emotions from pictures. Users upload photos and the system ...

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Users upload photos and the system evaluates the depicted face based on eight emotions: anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness and surprise. I decided to run press photos from prominent&nbsp;figures in electronic music through Project Oxford to see if Microsoft's&nbsp;world-c...

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I decided to run press photos from prominent&nbsp;figures in electronic music through Project Oxford to see if Microsoft's&nbsp;world-class machine learning techniques can give us any insight into their inner selves. ## Sven Marquardt literally shows zero fear. ## Levon Vincent's&nbsp;emotions ra...

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## Levon Vincent's&nbsp;emotions range from&nbsp;contempt to fear. Sounds like a match. ## Scuba's kinda moody.

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Sounds like a match. ## Scuba's kinda moody. ## Grimes&nbsp;shows a very modest palette of emotions in her recent press shot. Except for the red eyes.

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## Grimes&nbsp;shows a very modest palette of emotions in her recent press shot. Except for the red eyes. ##

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Except for the red eyes. ## . ## Marcel Dettmann&nbsp;is almost 100 percent neutral with a little anger and&nbsp;a wee bit of disgust.

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## Marcel Dettmann&nbsp;is almost 100 percent neutral with a little anger and&nbsp;a wee bit of disgust. ## . ## &nbsp;DJ Koze feels it all.

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## . ## &nbsp;DJ Koze feels it all. ## Missy Elliott's emotions&nbsp;almost match to the dot.

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