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Lie-detector glasses offer peek at future of

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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
(www.vworldwide.com). "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.
By R. Colin Johnson
EE Times
l 16 , 2004 ) 11:05 AM EST)

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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 at www.v-entertainment.com. 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

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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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