Back in 2001, two computer scientists, Paul Viola and Michael Jones, triggered a revolution in the field of computer face detection. After years of stagnation, their breakthrough was an algorithm ...

Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms. Wearing face masks ...

They say the proof is in the pudding, but when it comes to biometric identity verification, the proof is actually in the ...

Such software is trained on two sets of images: one to teach the algorithm how to recognize a face (“face detection”) and a second to figure out how to recognize a mask on a face (“mask ...

Facial recognition is controversial and often banned. But new AI-based technology identifies people without scanning their ...

and the threshold used with that algorithm. To understand better, start with the fact that face recognition is about comparing two images and deciding if the faces in the images are (a ...

We can age as little as five years before face-recognition algorithms begin to struggle to identify us as the same person. This means systems that rely on facial recognition may need to get new ...

We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...