Microsoft quietly launched a set of new machine-learning APIs in beta under the “Project Oxford” moniker ... this API also offers face detection in images, face verification to check whether ...

"It compares two face images ... of low background or ambient light, and very high or bright sunlight," Jain explains. "So infrared illumination helps in enabling the face recognition to work ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in ...