Animated stamps from USC celebrate 14 builders of the modern internet, from DNS and video calls to JPEG, encryption, and the algorithms inside phones

USC is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with animated digital stamps honoring unsung heroes of computing. These stamps ...
Biometric Update

Naver Pay adds airport checkpoints to Facesign facial recognition use cases

Naver has launched Smartpass, a airport checkpoint system integrated with Naver Pay’s facial authentication service Facesign, ...

AI researchers develop a way to trick facial recognition systems

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 ...
Tech Xplore

Short training helps people spot AI faces in the battle against deepfake fraud

Humans have been successfully trained to spot AI-generated faces in a study led by researchers at the Australian National ...
Tech XploreOpinion

Western Australia police are scanning faces in public—and the law is not ready for the consequences

In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in ...
TruthoutOpinion

Will AI Replace High-Waged Workers With Substandard Algorithms?

Democracy Now! speaks with science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow about AI and his latest book, The ...
IEEE

3-D Face Morphing Attacks: Generation, Vulnerability and Detection

Abstract: Face Recognition systems (FRS) have been found to be vulnerable to morphing attacks, where the morphed face image is generated by blending the face images from contributory data subjects.

Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.
Biometric Companies

UK regulators pan patchwork policy for law enforcement facial recognition

The UK’s two Biometrics Commissioners shared cautionary observations about the use of facial recognition in law enforcement over the weekend in a report that raises several important questions about ...
IEEE

End-to-End Detection-Segmentation System for Face Labeling

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an end-to-end detection-segmentation system to implement detailed face labeling. Fully convolutional networks (FCN) has become the mainstream algorithm in the field ...
The Conversation

The Capture season three: experts in facial recognition and AI decipher the fact from the fiction

The BBC’s conspiracy thriller drama The Capture is back for a third season. The first two series had viewers hooked with a story that intertwined police investigations, facial recognition and deepfake ...
Computer Weekly

Dutch researchers use heartbeat detection to unmask deepfakes

The race between deepfake creators and detectors has entered a new phase, with researchers from the Netherlands revealing tech that reads the human heartbeat through video analysis. While artificial ...