There’s a new online service that is designed to help people become aware of whether or not their Flickr photos have been used to train any facial recognition algorithms. As […]

A new facial recognition start-up has made a statement with an extremely strong performance in the latest round of NIST testing. YooniK was founded in late 2019, and can now […]

Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski has published a study that suggests that facial recognition can be used to predict someone’s political affiliation. In the study, Kosinski developed a facial recognition algorithm […]

“…success in engineering facial recognition technology that can identify subjects in the light and in the dark would represent a considerable upgrade in biometric intelligence capabilities for the military.” The […]

The NEC Corporation is garnering headlines for its ability to recognize people who are wearing masks. The company updated its facial recognition algorithm in September, and now reports that it […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working to improve its facial recognition capabilities when subjects are wearing face masks. The agency had previously expressed frustration with the widespread adoption […]

Jumio has released a series of predictions for the identity verification industry in 2021. The company noted that fraud rates were up 60 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and expects […]

CyberLink has further improved its global ranking in the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT). The company is celebrating a spot in the […]

Innovatrics is providing the biometric identification technology for Credence ID’s new universal healthcare project in Senegal. To that end, the company’s face and fingerprint recognition algorithms have been integrated into […]

NEC has upgraded its facial recognition engine to make sure that it can identify people who are wearing masks. The new engine was able to match faces with more than […]