Current facial-recognition technology is based primarily on the work of Paul Viola and Michael Jones, who achieved a major breakthrough in 2001 when they developed an algorithm that could detect ...

NIST has put its FRTE program on hold, along with the Face Assessment Technology Evaluation (FATE) and the Iris Exchange (IREX) program.

Many facial recognition companies have claimed they can identify people with pinpoint accuracy even while they're wearing face masks, but the latest results from a study show that the coverings ...

The detection phase of facial recognition starts with an algorithm that learns what a face is. Usually the creator of the algorithm does this by “training” it with photos of faces.

Face masks are breaking some of the most commonly used facial recognition algorithms, according to a new study from US government agency NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

That's about 117 million adults. Overall, the FBI has access to about 412 million images as part of a face-recognition database, and the bulk of people in the database have committed no crimes.

Facial recognition algorithms developed before the outbreak struggle to identify people wearing masks or face coverings, according to a new study from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National ...

IARPA’s Face Recognition Prize Challenge hopes to ID improved algorithms to process up to 150 different layers of data. (Maxiphoto via Getty Images) Officials from the Intelligence Advanced Research ...

Face masks are already known to stop the spread of coronavirus. Apparently, they can also make it much harder for facial-recognition software to identify you, too.

Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a ...

When coders dug through Apple’s beta versions of iOS5 they found what were deemed to be “ highly sophisticated ” API systems that let an iPhone automatically track eye positions and mouth positions ...