Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

The LFR system not only identifies individuals based on their face biometrics, but is part of a platform that also connects them to their friends and family.

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach incorporating Facial Expression Recognition (FER) to improve emotional and contextual understanding in Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) model-generated ...

Meta is facing backlash over its plans to add facial recognition capabilities to its camera-equipped smart glasses. On Wednesday, during a trial examining the impact of the social media platform on ...

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office plans to sign a contract for facial recognition technology, surprising some county officials. Sheriff Denita Ball signed an intent to contract with Biometrica, a ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are using a new facial recognition smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of both US citizens and immigrants. They point a phone ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

Facing community pushback and a possible Fire & Police Commission (FPC) directive, the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) is pausing its use of facial recognition technology. “The Milwaukee Police ...

Last week, Milwaukee Police Department issued an immediate ban on the use of facial recognition technology, citing public concern and the need to maintain community trust. Former Milwaukee Police ...