Facial recognition is finally getting good enough to say something meaningful about our health. Are we ready for it?

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 ...

Face detection software has slowly crept into mainstream use, from Facebook photo tagging to Android phone unlocking, but new research looks set to move the technology on significantly. Scientists ...

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 ...

At left, a face is easily detected in an image before our processing. In the middle, we’ve added perturbations that cause an algorithm to detect other faces, but not the real one.

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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.

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "New algorithm could explain human face recognition." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 December 2016. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 12 ...

“Unsurprisingly masks that occlude more of the face give larger false nonmatch rates,” the study reads. When noses were covered, according to the study, algorithms struggled most.