Researchers from the University of Toronto have been fighting fire with fire in an attempt to find ways to protect the privacy of online pictures. They've used an artificial intelligence system to ...

Face detection constitutes a foundational task in computer vision, underpinning applications ranging from biometric authentication and human–computer interaction to surveillance and augmented reality.

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 ...

The World Economic Forum’s "Global Risks Report 2024" notes that foreign and domestic actors leveraging misinformation—often generated by AI—is among the most adverse threats the world will face in ...

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

The use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in a wide and growing variety of contexts has brought into increasing focus both the potential benefits of using FRT and concerns about impacts on equity ...

“[V]ariations between the images of the same face due to illumination and viewing direction are almost always larger than image variations due to changes in face identity” (Moses et al., 1994). As ...

After evidence surfaced in 2018 that leading face-analysis algorithms were less accurate for people with darker skin, companies including Google and Meta adopted measures of skin tone to test the ...

Police in Canada’s capitol Ottawa, Ontario are taking their first step towards a potential implementation of facial recognition from Idemia.