Facial recognition researchers look for a culprit in gender inequality, come up empty
A group of researchers has looked at possible reasons that biometric facial recognition accuracy is different for men and women,…
Facial Recognition
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a two- or three-dimensional digital image or a frame from a video source. It is typically used in security systems alone or in combination with other factors. Can also be used to perform liveness detection. Find facial recognition solutions here.
EU police working on large-scale facial biometrics database, report says
European law enforcement agencies are allegedly collaborating on building a continent-wide biometric facial recognition database, according to leaked documents from…
UCLA says it will not use CCTV facial recognition on campus after students’ concerns
University of California, Los Angeles’s (UCLA) Administrative Vice Chancellor Michael Beck told Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the…
Canadian Privacy Commissioners investigate Clearview AI, develop guidance for police use of biometrics
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner and those of the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec have announced the launch of…
New face-cloaking tool 100 percent effective against Amazon, Microsoft, Face++ in testing
Researchers say they have found sand to throw in the gears of unauthorized deep-learning models that harvest facial images online….
NEC equips West HQ in Australia with biometric kiosks for authentication
NEC has entered a partnership with West HQ, an entertainment, fitness, lifestyle and accommodation destination in Sydney, Australia, to deploy…
Active and passive liveness detection for biometric face authentication explored in ID R&D whitepaper
As biometric liveness detection technology advances, companies are struggling to keep up with developments sufficiently to understand the relative advantages…
Moscow rolls out biometric facial recognition to monitor coronavirus infections
Fearing a rapid spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Moscow authorities have decided to roll out biometric facial identification technology as…
Google responds to limitations of gender labels in facial analysis by removing them to avoid bias
Google has removed gender labels from its Cloud Vision API to avoid bias or misclassification of people with its facial…
Travel industry group pitches biometrics to relieve airport chokepoint stress as deployments discussed
U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Roger Dow says the organization is focused on expanding biometrics use to enhance security…
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