FaceReader
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FaceReader product videos
FaceReader Classifications Demo
Discover the realtime modeling capabilities of FaceReader.
Affective attitudes in FaceReader
Using the Action Unit Module, Facereader is able to detect the affective attitude 'confusion'.
Baby FaceReader
Baby FaceReader enables you to recognize the facial expressions of an infant automatically!

What does your face say?
Curious what emotions your face shows? Upload a photo here and our FaceReader software will test it for emotionality. The better quality the picture, the better the results! To get the best results, test only photos where your face is clearly visible. The lighting should be sufficient as well.
Try it now and find out what your face says.
Customer success stories
How to measure emotions in the Uses and Acceptability Lab
Jean-Marc Diverrez, bcom Institute of Research and Technology
Sensory evaluation - Food science & technology
Prof. Susan Duncan, Virginia Tech
Social Media Lab: How people make sense of data
Tiffany Andry, University of Louvain
References
- Dupré, D. et al. (2020). A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition. PLoS ONE, 15(4):e0231968. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231968.
- Märtin, C., Bissinger B.C., & Asta, P. (2021). Optimizing the digital customer journey - Improving user experience by exploiting emotions, personas and situations for individualized user interface adaptations. Journal of Consumer Behavior, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.1964.
- Meng, Q. et al. (2020). On the effectiveness of facial expression recognition for evaluation of urban sound perception. Science of The Total Environment, 710, 135484, ISSN 0048-9697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135484.
- Rogers, J. (2022). Ethnicity & FaceReader 9 - A FairFace Case Study. Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the joint 12th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research and 6th Seminar on Behavioral Methods, held online, May 18-20, 2022. www.measuringbehavior.org. Editors: Andrew Spink, Jaroslaw Barski, Anne-Marie Brouwer, Gernot Riedel, & Annesha Sil (2022). https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20066849. ISBN: 978-90-74821-94-0
- Stöckli, S. et al. (2018). Facial expression analysis with AFFDEX and FACET: A validation study. Behav Res Methods, 50(4), 1446-1460. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0996-1.
- Talen, L. & den Uyl, T.E. (2021). Complex Website Tasks Increase the Expression Anger Measured with FaceReader Online. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2021.1938390.
Recent blog posts

Facial mimicry and social cognition in children with autism spectrum disorder
When we want to understand each other better, we tend to copy one another's facial expressions. How does this work in children with autism spectrum disorder? In this blog post, you’ll learn more about facial mimicry in ASD.
Understanding infants’ social and moral development
At the Centre of Infant Cognition at UBC in Vancouver, researchers conduct independent studies as well as participate in ManyBabies projects to further understand the development of moral and social behaviors of infants.