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AI Facial Expression Training Image Labeller

Tag and identify specific human micro-expressions in photographs to train facial recognition AI.

Startup Cost: £0 Location: Remote/Home Difficulty: Easy Useful side income A few hours a week

Earning and time figures are our broad estimates, not guarantees — actual results depend on your area, your effort and demand.

Why it's left-field

You spend your hours carefully studying human faces to teach a computer code how to recognize a smile, a smirk, or a frown.

How it works

  1. 1Data agencies provide thousands of image frames.
  2. 2Draw tiny digital bounding boxes around eyes, lips, and brows.
  3. 3Tag each region with the correct human emotion displayed.

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