Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or worse New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy.

Makers of facial-recognition technology scramble to adapt to a world where people routinely cover their faces to avoid spreading disease.

Stephen Maloney, the EVP of business development and strategy at security firm Acuant, says the facial recognition is a step in the right direction, but there are some interesting workarounds.

Face recognition software can now see through your cunning disguise – even you are wearing a mask. Amarjot Singh at the University of Cambridge and his colleagues trained a machine learning ...

By using machine learning, they created an image that looked like one person to the human eye, but was identified as somebody else by the face recognition algorithm—the equivalent of tricking ...

To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.

The next challenge for facial recognition is identifying people whose faces are covered Current methods are unreliable, but progress is being made — and quickly ...

Tuesday, more than 1,000 machine-learning researchers, sociologists, historians, and ethicists released a public letter condemning the paper, and Springer Nature confirmed on Twitter it will not ...