Facial Recognition

Every Camera Should Have This Hilarious Boob Tracker

If you have a web camera on your computer or front facing camera on your phone or any camera really, you’re going to be extremely jealous of this awesome boob tracker feature after watching this video. Who cares about facial recognition! Who cares about Wi-Fi equipped cameras! Every camera needs this boob tracker. It looks…

Boston Police: Facial Recognition Didn’t Help Search For Bombers

While it’s undeniable that tech played a major part in helping hunt down the two Boston bombing suspects, it certainly wasn’t facial recognition that helped. Boston Police have admitted that their facial recognition system “did not identify” the suspects. https://gizmodo.com/the-tech-that-helped-take-down-marathon-bombing-suspect-5995125 Speaking to the Washington Post, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis explained: “The technology came up…

Could You Ever Be So Paranoid About Privacy That You’d Wear These Goofy Glasses?

It should come as no surprise that quite often, lurking in the shadows, a security camera is secretly leering at you. In stores, in banks, even on the street; and now they can recognize you too. Of course, there are ways to fight back, but unfortunately they include wearing these goofy-looking glasses. https://gizmodo.com/this-creepy-facial-recognition-system-knows-how-often-y-5959723 Designed by…

Meet the cheap facial-recognition system that will identify you everywhere you go

You are being watched — especially when you go to the airport. But now you might be recognized, too. A company called Flight Display Systems has been demonstrating a $9,275 facial recognition device (pictured here) that can be installed inside airplane doors to check the identity of every person entering the plane, and alert staff…

This Creepy Facial Recognition System Knows How Often You Visit a Store

You might want to think twice about how often you hang out at your local Best Buy in the future. In Japan, NEC has developed a new facial recognition system geared towards retailers that determines the age and gender of shoppers, and tracks how long and how often they visit a given store. The collected…

Facebook is turning off its facial recognition and auto-tagging in the EU following privacy investigations. [Telegraph]

Meet a real-life master of disguise

Gordon Stettinius is a man of many faces. He’s a photographer and adjunct professor by trade — but he’s also been known to moonlight as a country singer, a wholesome-looking governor, and a weirdo in a guayabera with a killer ‘stache and a scraggly combover. Why does he do this? Contrary to what you might…

Is This Facial Recognition Tech Designed for Makeup Counters the Most Accurate Ever?

Sometimes you turn on the news and see a clip of an unknown perp robbing a convenience store. Problem is, police can’t tell who the thief is because the video is so bad. But that might not be a problem anymore thanks to a French company called Vesalis and its bang-on facial recognition software. Originally…

Will Facial-Recognition Software Finally Reveal Mona Lisa’s True Identity?

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, received an initial grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which they will use to explore the effectiveness of cutting-edge facial-recognition technology in centuries-old portraits and other fine art. The project, known as FACES (Faces, Art, and Computerized Evaluation Systems), will make use of the…

This Super Face-Scanning Software Thinks It Can Guess Your Age

Here’s a pleasant first little look at Skynet—Face.com, which develops facial recognition software, now boasts that it can pinpoint your age based on your mug alone. Let’s test it out. The software is meant for developers to use in their apps—say, a browser extension that would block certain sites when kids were on the computer.…

This chart explains where your eyes look to recognize faces

Or at least that’s what your intuition tells you. The blue areas in the image above track how the eye moves over a stranger’s face when the viewer is trying to recognize them. The nose, front and center, and usually distinctive, gets the first look. When talking about a person’s face, most writers rhapsodize about…

Canon’s Facial Recognition Focuses on Friends and Ignores Strangers

We’ve all taken pictures where we’ve accidentally focused on the wrong person: who the hell was that dude in the background, anyway? But facial recognition baked into Canon’s new cameras should mean that doesn’t happen again. This week at CES Canon announced its new ELPH series cameras, along with the hotly anticipated PowerShot G1 X.…

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus Knows What You Look Like

You’ve always had a choice. Either leave your screen unlocked when you stow it and run the risk of pocket-dialing the entirety of your contact list or lock the screen and endure the tedium of entering a PIN every time you pull it out. The new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, however, knows when to unlock itself—just…

Police Used Facial Recognition Software To ID Suspects in UK Riots

We recently talked about how facial recognition technology was taking a turn for the scary and was being used to identify people in real life. That terrifying tech has already been used by cops and others in the London riots. https://gizmodo.com/your-facebook-photos-can-identify-you-in-real-life-5828282 SlashGear is reporting that facial recognition technology was deployed in at least three different…

Germany Declares Facebook’s Facial Recognition Illegal

Although we think it’s generally a pretty nifty feature, valid concerns over the misuse of Facebook’s auto-recognition tagging have lead Germany to ban it entirely. That’s right—Facebook in its current state is now illegal. Deep Scheiße, Zuckerberg. The German government—which possesses perhaps the world’s most adamant privacy laws as a result of Nazi and subsequent…

Here’s How U.S. Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics

Iarpa, the intelligence community’s way-out research shop, wants to know where you took that vacation picture over the Fourth of July. It wants to know where you took that snapshot with your friends when you were at that New Year’s Eve party. Oh yeah, and if you happen to be a terrorist and you took…

Facial Recognition: It’s Not Creepy, So Get Over It

Facial recognition, like targeted advertising before it, is the internet’s newest bogeyman. Many have an instant aversion to their faces being scanned by a computer. You shouldn’t. With the right caveats, the tech’s like robot vacuums: helpful, not scary. It’s not so surprising that personal facial recognition has created a face-jerk reaction among privacy advocates.…

Facebook Makes It Easier to Opt Out of Facial Recognition

Facebook’s facial recognition system was so intrusive, the EU felt it necessary to investigate it for privacy violations. While Facebook has always allowed you to turn it off, it’s always been a bit fiddly—until now. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-latest-privacy-settings-shadiness-invades-you-5809647

Facial Recognition Screws With the Wrong Man

Technology may be a pivot for many of our lives, but it’s not exactly infallible. A Massachusetts man learnt that the hard way, after his driver’s license was flagged as a fake on the police system, due to a facial-recognition error. It seems John H. Gass looks rather similar to another Massachusetts driver, causing the…

The EU Is Investigating Facebook’s New Facial Recognition Feature

The new facial recognition photo-tagging feature that was rolled out on Facebook this week has got privacy-freaks in a frenzy, but none more so than European Union data-protection regulators, who are investigating it for privacy violations. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-latest-privacy-settings-shadiness-invades-you-5809647 Watchdogs from 27 countries will be looking into the feature to determine if it violates a user’s privacy,…