Thermal Imaging for Anxiety Detection

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Pavlidis;James Levine;Paulette Baukol

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CVBVS '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Methods and Applications (CVBVS 2000)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose a revolutionary concept for detecting suspects engaged in illegal and potentially harmful activities in or around critical military or civilian installations. We investigate the use of thermal image analysis to detect at distance facial patterns of anxiety, alertness, and/or fearfulness. This is a totally novel approach to the problem of biometric identification. Instead of focusing on the question 驴who are you驴, we focus instead on the question 驴what are you about to do驴. Documented preliminary results clearly indicate the feasibility of the idea.