Grother sees two major challenges organizations must address to use facial recognition software effectively as an authenticator: Have developers create algorithms that produce better recognition of ...

Facial recognition software has made huge gains in accuracy in the past five years, a new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology asserts. In fact, the technology has undergone ...

That's about 117 million adults. Overall, the FBI has access to about 412 million images as part of a face-recognition database, and the bulk of people in the database have committed no crimes.

Facial-recognition technology is already being used for applications ranging from unlocking phones to identifying potential criminals. Despite advances, it has still come under fire for racial ...

The standardization of image quality for face biometrics is a major step towards making population-scale biometric systems ...

Despite massive improvements in deep-learning techniques, federal testing shows that most facial recognition algorithms perform poorly at identifying people besides white men.

Because of face coverings prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, companies are trying to ID people based on just their eyes and cheekbones.

As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes has been using stolen photos of dead people to train its algorithms.