Every facial recognition system works differently—often built on proprietary algorithms—but you can sort out the process into three basic types of technology: The detection phase of facial ...

Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing ...

Once the heady stuff of films like Minority Report, facial recognition algorithms ... besides all their other possible faults, facial-detection algorithms exacerbate all the differences that ...

Back in 2001, two computer scientists, Paul Viola and Michael Jones, triggered a revolution in the field of computer face detection ... recognition. The great promise of this kind of algorithm ...

Viola and Jones overcame an impasse in face detection technology by ignoring the thornier issue of recognition and concentrating on spotting faces. Their algorithm ... an advanced type of machine ...

Facial-recognition systems misidentified people ... depending on the particular algorithm and type of search. Native Americans had the highest false-positive rate of all ethnicities, according ...

Generally, there are two types of facial-recognition software ... whose functions include measuring the accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms that companies and researchers submit to its ...

It was a 3D rendering that bridges the uncanny valley between reality and science fiction; a representation of how the company’s algorithm ... types of images police can use with face ...