Prominent facial recognition researcher scraped videos of trans people, left dataset exposed
New research finds that a controversial facial recognition dataset of trans people remained available online for years after the initial…
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Datatang adds 5,000 Traditional Chinese characters to OCR system
Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Datatang has updated its optical character recognition (OCR) database to include 5,000 handwritten characters in…
Clearview patent on method for scaling biometric training dataset gets US notice of allowance
A patent for a method of biometric algorithm training filed by Clearview AI is on its way to being granted,…
Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training
Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are…
Market for photos of masked people to train biometric algorithms surging
One of the largest stock photo platforms in Japan is building a database of images of individuals wearing masks to…
AiLECS Lab to create ethically-sourced face biometric database to fight child abuse
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Monash University entered a new collaboration aimed at creating an ethically-sourced face biometrics database…
Dataset generating model boosts biometric performance and privacy, researchers say
It is possible to create synthetic samples for facial recognition algorithms that simultaneously maintain code performance and cut privacy leakage,…
Similar arguments to have biometric data privacy suits thrown out made by Amazon, Microsoft
Amazon did not use the biometric data of Illinois residents contained in the Diversity in Faces dataset, or benefit from…
Big jump in public face biometric dataset size
A large team of researchers overwhelmingly from China says it has created new million-scale facial recognition benchmark. They claim in…
Real data is dead? A half-million image biometric dataset says otherwise
A software firm claims to have assembled a 500,000-photo dataset that it says is not only “legally clean” and suitable…
