Baidu’s HAHAmoji App Uses AI Technology to Turn Your Selfies into Emojis
June 20 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
App is Now Available in the U.S. for iOS Devices
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), the leading Chinese language
Internet search provider, today announced the launch of HAHAmoji, a
new smartphone app that leverages the company’s facial recognition
AI technology to add emoji-like expressions and animations to
people’s photos.
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HAHAmoji uses Baidu's AI technology to
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HAHAmoji makes use of Baidu’s Deep Image 2 technology to
identify people’s faces in photos, and then animates them with cute
expressions. The app uses Metal, Liquify and OpenGL to add
animations to images. Users can save their favorite animations as
GIF files on their phone or share them directly with friends on
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, LINE and other social
platforms.
“Using facial recognition technology for fun helps demystify AI
by letting more people experience it and play with it,” said Mr.
Jiang Feng, product manager of HAHAmoji. “HAHAmoji is all about
having fun with friends, challenging them to see who can make the
funniest emojis – and also pranking them with selfies.”
HAHAmoji currently supports seven different facial animations,
with more to be added on a regular basis. At time of launch, the
app supports the following animations:
- Extreme anger
- Sly smile
- Nose-picking
- Mad as hell
- Joy and sorrow
- Epic face slap
- Cutie cheek pinch
HAHAmoji is the most recent of Baidu’s international products to
incorporate the company’s own AI technology. Previously, Baidu’s
popular Japanese keyboard app Simeji added AI-powered speech
recognition to allow users to dictate their chats instead of
typing.
For more information and to download HAHAmoji for free, visit
the product page on the Apple App Store.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complicated world simpler for users
and enterprises through technology. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “BIDU”. Currently, ten
ADSs represent one Class A ordinary share.
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