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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents with ...

Local binary patterns (LBP) are an effective texture descriptor for face recognition. In this work, a LBP-based hybrid system for face recognition is proposed. Thus, the dimensionality of LBP ...

Police enter a football stadium and scan the crowd, searching for a man they believe is a terrorist. To find him, they upload a photo into a video surveillance network using face recognition ...

Italy's police have been using a new facial-recognition system for the past few months. It's based on a database of 16 million mugshots, nine million of which belong to people who have been identified ...

Facial recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible, researchers have found. Facial recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible, researchers from the ...

Are American retail stores using face recognition on their customers without telling them? We asked some of America’s biggest retailers and, with a few exceptions, they refused to tell us. We also ...

Privacy groups are demanding transparency following news that ID.me—the biometric identity verification system used by the IRS and over 27 states—has failed to be ...