Facial-recognition systems are often proprietary and swathed in secrecy, but specialists say that most involve a multi-stage process (see ‘How facial recognition works’) using deep learning to ...

U.K. police have experimented with the use of facial recognition technology on live surveillance video in public areas, as seen in this photo. In the U.S., police departments are also embracing ...

A new lens-free and compact system for facial recognition scans a bust of Michelangelo’s David and reconstructs the image using less power than existing 3D-surface imaging systems.

Organizations must learn to adapt their defenses and move to using more AI applications to protect themselves against evolving threats like new account fraud.

The US Department of Homeland Security has carried out trials to test whether facial recognition algorithms could correctly identify masked individuals.

Corsight AI, a facial recognition subsidiary of the Israeli AI company Cortica, purports to be devising a solution for that sort of situation by using DNA to create a model of a face that can then ...

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for everything from government surveillance to convenient online logins, especially in China. A new test reported by Fortune casts doubt on the ...

POWERED BY advances in artificial intelligence (AI), face-recognition systems are spreading like knotweed. Facebook, a social network, uses the technology to label people in uploaded photographs ...