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This could break up a lot of marriages and "relationships." - JR
Lie-detector glasses
offer peek at future of security PORTLAND, Ore. — It may
not be long before you hear airport security screeners ask, "Do you plan on
hijacking this plane?" A U.S. company using technology developed in Israel is
pitching a lie detector small enough to fit in the eyeglasses of law enforcement
officers, and its inventors say it can tell whether a passenger is a terrorist
by analyzing his answer to that simple question in real-time.
The technology, developed by mathematician Amir Lieberman at Nemesysco in
Zuran, Israel, for military, insurance claim and law enforcement use, is being
repackaged and retargeted for personal and corporate applications by V
Entertainment (New York).
"Our products were originally for law enforcement use — we get all our
technology from Nemesys-co — but we need more development time [for that
application]," said Dave Watson, chief operating officer of parent V LLC. "So we decided to come out sooner
with consumer versions at CES."
The company showed plain sunglasses outfitted with the technology at the 2004
International CES in Las Vegas earlier this month. The system used green, yellow
and red color codes to indicate a "true," "maybe" or "false" response. At its
CES booth, V Entertainment analyzed the voices of celebrities like Michael
Jackson to determine whether they were lying.
Besides lie detection, Watson said, the technology "can also measure for
other emotions like anxiety, fear or even love." Indeed V Entertainment offers
Pocket PC "love detector" software that can attach to a phone line or work from
recorded tapes. It's available for download. Instead of color-coded
LEDs, a bar graph on the display indicates how much the caller to whom you are
speaking "loves" you. V Entertainment claims the love detector has demonstrated
96 percent accuracy. A PC version is due next month.
The heart of Nemesysco's security-oriented technology is a signal-processing
engine that is said to use more than 8,000 algorithms each time it analyzes an
incoming voice waveform. In this way it detects levels of various emotional
states simultaneously from the pitch and speed of the voice.
The law enforcement version achieved about 70 percent accuracy in laboratory
trials, according to V Entertainment, and better than 90 percent accuracy
against real criminal subjects at a beta test site at the U.S. Air Force's Rome
Laboratories.
"It is very different from the common polygraph, which measures changes in
the body, such as heart rate," said Richard Parton, V's chief executive officer.
"We work off the frequency range of voice patterns instead of changes in the
body." The company said that a state police agency in the Midwest found the lie
detector 89 percent accurate, compared with 83 percent for a traditional
polygraph.
The technology delivers not only a true/false reading, but a range of
high-level parameters, such as "thinking level," which measures how much as
subject has thought about an answer they give, and "SOS level," which assesses
how badly a person doesn't want to talk about a subject.
How it works
Nemesysco's patented Poly-Layered Voice Analysis measures 18 parameters of
speech in real-time for interrogators at police, military and secret-services
agencies. According to Nemesysco, its
accuracy as a lie detector has proven to be less important than its ability to
more quickly pinpoint for interrogators where there are problems in a subject's
story. Officers then can zero in much more quickly with their traditional
interrogation techniques.
V Entertainment is leveraging the concept to let consumers in on the truth
telling, eyeing such applications as a lie detector that could be used while
watching, say, the 2004 presidential debates on TV.
Called Ex-Sense Pro, the V software measures voice for a variety of
parameters including deception, excitement, stress, mental effort,
concentration, hesitation, anger, love and lust. It works prerecorded, over the
phone and live, the company said. V Entertainment recommends it for screening
phone calls, checking the truthfulness of people with whom you deal or gauging
romantic interest.
The display can show each measured parameter in a separate window, with
real-time traces of instantaneous measurements while flashing the overall for
each parameter, such as "false probable," "high stress" and "SOS." Ultimately,
the company plans to offer versions of its detectors for cell phones, dating
services, teaching aids, toys and games.
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