Synaptics will unveil its Q4 and fiscal 2018 results on August 9th, the company has announced. The results will be posted after market close, with a corresponding conference call scheduled […]

“Like other China-based AI specialists that have announced huge investment rounds in recent weeks, including Yitu and SenseTime, Megvii appears to have benefitted from the Chinese government’s immense appetite for […]

The global image recognition market is in the middle of a considerable growth trend, according to a new analysis from Progressive Markets. Using 2015 as a benchmark, the India-based research […]

Like pretty much any other groundbreaking technology, biometrics has long carried the promise of great social benefit and the risk of potential abuse. It has always been exciting and controversial. […]

“The event also saw live demos of technologies including facial recognition, which is increasingly used by police around the world as a surveillance tool. “ The world’s biggest police organization […]

As controversy over the public use of facial recognition continues, Microsoft is following Google’s lead in laying out its approach to the ethics of the technology in a new blog […]

“Plurilock says its sales partners will extend its reach in the Middle East, Europe, the APAC region, and the Americas.” Plurilock has launched a new partner distributor program for its […]

“What’s more, the system is highly accurate, offering an Equal Error Rate of 0.3 percent on microphones and 0.6 percent for speech collected through a telephone.” ID R&D has upgraded […]

Microsoft’s face scanning technology is now better able to determine the genders of subjects with darker skin tones, the company has announced. In a post on its AI Blog, Microsoft […]

“IBM is going to release a dataset of 36,000 facial images that will be equally distributed across a range of ethnicities, genders, and ages.” As the competition to develop sophisticated […]