Facial recognition

Why are you better at recognizing upright faces?

New Hampshire researchers get clues from a person who sees the world upside down.

 An illustrative image of people's faces, one upside down and the other right side up.
 Smile coach Keiko Kawano teaches students at a smile training course at Sokei Art School in Tokyo, Japan, May 30, 2023.

Japanese get trained in 'Hollywood' smiles as masks slowly come off

 Researchers created two facial approximations of an ancient Egyptian man using photogrammetry.

Scientists reconstruct 35,000 year old face - study

 Madeleine McCann

Julia Wendel most likely not Madeleine McCann - facial recognition comparison


Microsoft divests from Israeli facial recognition firm AnyVision

Microsoft explained that it had decided to end all of its minority investments in companies that sell facial recognition technology.

File photo of a Microsoft logo on an office building in New York

Ready for Purim, 3D masks bring Instagram filters to life

The masks are of such a high resolution that they can trick facial recognition technologies.

“Public Interaction: A Printed Mask on my Face” (2019)

Holocaust victims' fates could be revealed with facial recognition

Shem Olam Holocaust Memorial Center launched its "Face to Face" project in July, calling via social media for people to send in pictures for facial recognition scans.

An employee demonstrates the scanning process of photographs during an interview with Reuters at the offices of Shem Olam Holocaust Memorial Centre in Kfar Haroeh, Israel January 14, 2020