What is face recognition? Face recognition is a method for identifying an unknown person or authenticating the identity of a specific person from their face.

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

Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms.

See, when a facial recognition company like Clearview is trained to recognize a given person’s appearance, that recognition happens by connecting one picture of a face (ie, from a Facebook ...

The nation's top-level intelligence office, the Director of National Intelligence, wants to find "the most accurate unconstrained face recognition algorithm." A branch of the office, which ...

NIST is widely considered the leading authority on facial recognition accuracy testing, and expected algorithms to improve on identifying people in face masks.

Facial-recognition technology is already being used for applications ranging from unlocking phones to identifying potential criminals. Despite advances, it has still come under fire for racial ...

The coronavirus pandemic has led to many more people wearing face masks in public, and that could wreak havoc on facial recognition systems, a new government study found.

Coronavirus face masks can confuse facial recognition technology, government researchers announced Monday.

Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial-recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies ...