For many, normal facial recognition — used in the daylight — has become a facet of everyday life. Whether it’s for identity verification to unlock a smart phone, or trivial social media camera filters — it seems the technology is everywhere. However, at the U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory just outside of […]

RESEARCH Triangle Park: As the U.S. Army increasingly uses facial and object recognition to train artificial intelligent systems to identify threats, the need to protect its systems from cyberattacks becomes essential. An Army project conducted by researchers at Duke University and led by electrical and computer engineering faculty members Dr. Helen Li and Dr. Yiran […]

DefenceTalkIn the last few years, several groups have announced that their facial recognition systems have achieved near-perfect accuracy rates, performing better than humans at picking the same face out of the crowd. But those tests were performed on a dataset with only 13,000 images – fewer people than attend an average professional U.S. soccer game. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/how-well-do-facial-recognition-algorithms-cope-with-a-million-strangers-67735/

DefenceTalkThe US National Security Agency is scooping up large quantities of images of people for use in facial recognition programs, the New York Times reported Sunday, citing top secret documents. The Times said documents, which were obtained from fugitive former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, show a significant increase in reliance on facial recognition technology […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nsa-scoops-up-images-for-facial-recognition-programs-report-59741/