Facial biometrics study suggests Amazon performance unchanged as Microsoft launches antibias tool
Comparitech has released a report on biometric bias in Amazon’s facial recognition offering, similar to previous reports from the ACLU comparing…
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Startup AI firm impresses with massively crowd sourced biometrics algorithm training
DefinedCrowd, which bills itself as a crowd-as-a-service AI firm, has closed a $50.5 million series B funding round destined for…
Researchers use Instagram mask selfies to improve biometric facial recognition algorithms
Some facial biometrics developers fear the COVID-19 pandemic will affect their business, as the number of people wearing masks has…
Google data privacy suit alleging violations from voice AI training partially dismissed
A data privacy lawsuit against Google over the speech recognition processes used by its voice assistant services has been partially…
Trueface argues advantage of single model approach as mask detection added to face biometrics
In the midst of a series of announcements about biometric facial recognition systems being upgraded to detect if people are…
Privacy as a human right gets lip service. A report shows a different path
A report out of Harvard University warns that global society naively seems to expect artificial intelligence to grow benignly, on…
Face mask popularity prompts new biometric datasets for sale, FaceID work around in China
Datasets consisting of images of people wearing facemasks are being sold online for miniscule prices in China, according to Abacus,…
Researchers find major demographic differences in speech recognition accuracy
Research indicates that speech recognition technology from the world’s leading consumer technology brands performs with different degrees of accuracy for…
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,…
Facebook pays users for their voice recordings to improve speech recognition tech
After it was caught in the act of secretly transcribing voice recordings without user consent, Facebook is officially upgrading its…
