Smithsonian Magazine

Computers Are Getting Much Better at Image Recognition

The machine-learning programs that underpin their ability to “see” still have blind spots—but not for much longer ...

Dubai Airport Gets 200 Facial Recognition Cameras to Speed Up Check-in

Emirates passengers flying through Dubai can now walk from check-in to boarding without showing a passport or phone. The ...
Biometric Update

IDnow reduces bias in facial recognition with EU-funded MAMMOth project

IDnow reports significant progress in reducing algorithmic bias in facial recognition systems, following its participation in ...
FuturismOpinion

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens

Adding to that panopticon is the personal phone of every Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border ...
IEEE

Multi-Stage Statistical Texture-Guided GAN for Tilted Face Frontalization

Abstract: Existing pose-invariant face recognition mainly focuses on frontal or profile, whereas high-pitch angle face recognition, prevalent under surveillance videos, has yet to be investigated.
Wired

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face

Autumn Gardiner thought updating her driving license would be straightforward. After getting married last year, she headed to the local Department of Motor Vehicles office in Connecticut to get her ...
Android

OneDrive Limits AI Facial Recognition Disabling: 3 Times a Year

Microsoft’s new OneDrive face recognition feature, which uses AI to group photos, is causing controversy because it is enabled by default (opt-out) and comes with a puzzling restriction. Users are ...
TweakTown

Microsoft adds AI facial recognition to OneDrive, can only be disabled three times per year

TL;DR: Microsoft OneDrive now features AI-powered facial recognition to help users organize photos by identifying people, similar to Google Photos. However, users can disable this privacy-intrusive ...
PC Magazine

Microsoft OneDrive Limits How Often You Can Adjust Facial-Recognition Settings

Microsoft has been experimenting with facial-recognition tech in OneDrive to help you group and search your photos by person, but it's limiting the number of times you can turn it on and off. As ...
PC Gamer

Preview users have noticed OneDrive's AI-driven face recognition setting is opt-out, and can only be turned off 'three times a year'

Software Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way ...
KnowTechie

Smart home facial recognition: How it works and what you need to know

Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. Imagine this: You’re juggling ...
IEEE

Global Cross-Entropy Loss for Deep Face Recognition

Abstract: Contemporary deep face recognition techniques predominantly utilize the Softmax loss function, designed based on the similarities between sample features and class prototypes. These ...