Despite advances
in facial recognition in recent years — law enforcement agencies including the FBI use it to check suspects against data bases of mug shots — it remains unclear whether FaceID will work in a variety of conditions while also keeping the iPhone X secure.
Not exact matches
But just because a company has the technical ability to use
facial recognition — as an example — it's not necessarily something that's
in their best interest when it comes to building trust with consumers.
Barry Pellas, who oversees tech strategy and the development of strategic assets for digital transformation firm PointSource, points out that Amazon certainly could be using
facial recognition to individually identify customers
in its new high - tech store
in Seattle, but does not.
-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats
in real - time, using video - based
facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..
AI is transforming China
in many sectors, from powerful
facial recognition systems capable of identifying 1.3 billion citizens
in seconds to nuclear submarines that can help a captain make faster, more accurate decisions
in combat.
Facebook's AI team has built a
facial recognition program that may well be the best
in the world.
Apple's Mail e-mailing app uses up to 35 % less storage
in High Sierra, and the built -
in Photos app has a refined look and intelligent
facial -
recognition features.
Imagine adding Google Glass to the picture, with a RelSci - powered
facial recognition app matching the wearer's profile against people
in the room, suggesting targets for sucking up to, along with the optimal pathways.
Since new
facial recognition technology is currently being added to devices and applications everywhere — Apple's iPhone X is the perfect example here — it comes as no great surprise that Facebook would be next to incorporate some kind of
facial scanning
in its own platform.
And a proposed bill
in Connecticut would make
facial recognition illegal for marketing purposes.
Currently,
facial recognition features on Facebook are not yet allowed
in Canada or Europe, although they are
in the United States.
New features such as
facial recognition and virtual reality herald Apple's vision for future smartphones, but other issues such as the lack of augmented - reality apps have cooled buyer buyer interest
in those technologies.
That
facial recognition technology depends,
in part, on augmented reality to recognize someone's face.
Blippar's
facial recognition feature on its app recognizes people
in real life or
in photos.
In December, Blippar began rolling out real - time
facial recognition technology to its mobile app, which will one day allow users to create «Augmented Reality Face Profiles.»
In other law enforcement applications, police at the Zhengzhou East high speed rail station in Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt facial recognition technolog
In other law enforcement applications, police at the Zhengzhou East high speed rail station
in Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt facial recognition technolog
in Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with
facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt
facial recognition technology.
Now, when you drop
in a photo, a new
facial recognition system can identify that there's a person
in the photo and adjust the cropping and position automatically, making the person the focus point of every shot.
Shares
in AMS, which provides the
facial recognition technology used
in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.
Facebook is also facing a class action lawsuit
in the U.S. over its use of
facial recognition.
First - tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai have already employed AI and
facial recognition technology to regulate traffic and identify driver's who violate road rules, while Shenzhen traffic police began displaying photos of jaywalkers on large LED screens at major intersections starting
in April 2017.
However, back
in 2012, Facebook had to stop using
facial recognition in the EU because German and Irish privacy regulators said people weren't really giving their consent to having their faces scanned and labelled.
In the right hands, however,
facial recognition can be put to good use.
What do spam detection,
facial recognition, product recommendations and credit - card fraud detection have
in common?
Facial recognition techniques are used by Facebook to help users tag their friends
in photos on the social media platform.
Yes, there are some pretty cool features on the iPhone X: the high definition OLED screen, infrared
facial recognition to map the 3D surface of the face rather than a flat image like a photo, and improved cameras with image stabilization, and built -
in capabilities to support augmented reality apps.
Jaywalkers
in Shenzhen are facing immediate punishment thanks to
facial recognition technology, South China Morning Post reports.
The killer feature on the iPhone X is Face ID, Apple's
facial recognition technology that can scan and recognize a user's face
in order to unlock a phone — no fingerprint necessary.
Le Huffington Post Quebec went live at 5 a.m. on Feb. 8, its lead story about
facial -
recognition technology
in Montreal casinos.
- Osram acquires Minnesota - based VCSEL specialists Vixar, adding to its expertise
in optical identification technology - VCSEL technology is used
in security applications such as 3D
facial recognition
The credit card company first tested its
facial recognition capabilities
in August
in the United States
in October.
And 2,700 miles from June's office
in San Francisco,
in a low - rise building wedged between a strip mall and railroad tracks outside of Boston, another emotion - measuring pioneer named Rana — Rana el Kaliouby — has spent the past year and a half strategizing to make the
facial - cue
recognition company she co-founded, Affectiva, the essential hub of the emerging emotion economy.
Yes, there is the ability to match people's faces
in a crowd that might lead to greater government surveillance, but there is also an opportunity to use better
facial recognition to manage your privacy.
While the iPhone X is controversial for a number of reasons — Face ID
in place of Touch ID, the lack of a home button, the ability to incorporate «animojis,» where emojis use
facial recognition instead of the traditional emojis we've grown to love — what really got people talking was the $ 999 price tag for the bare - bones model (a maxed out, 256 GB model will run you a cool $ 1,149).
For example, with automatic
facial recognition at scale, any picture of you uploaded to Facebook (or perhaps even the web) could result
in a notification.
Until last week, Facebook had
in fact not been using
facial recognition in Europe for the last five years — at least, not on the faces of its users.
Rival company Apple is also paying attention to
facial recognition: Last week, the tech giant acquired a patent for a way to «detect faces using information
in digital video feeds,» Bloomberg reports.
«We're not only developers of one of the world's best
facial -
recognition technologies but can also create products using our vast experience
in wider areas.»
When NTechLab won a highly publicized prize
in facial -
recognition technology, the company leveraged organic public relations to make its name known.
Samsung is seeking to stand out from its competitors by using
facial recognition technology
in its new Galaxy S8 smartphone.
Intellifusion, the Chinese AI firm
in charge of the
facial recognition technology
in Shenzhen, is working on a system that sends texts to jaywalkers alerting them of their fine immediately after the incident, the South China Morning Post reported.
«If we talk about the algorithms of
facial recognition, they greatly improve the quality of services and life
in general,» Kuharenko says.
In 2015, algorithm developer and
facial -
recognition technology expert NTechLab was founded.
«I chose
facial recognition,» Kuharenko says, «as it was clear that if you make a fast and precise
facial -
recognition system, it will have a huge number of applications
in everyday life.»
While Samsung phones have used
facial recognition for unlocking devices
in the past, this move will extend the technology to support secure financial transactions.
The iPhone X features
facial recognition and wireless charging, but it is widely regarded as lacking
in groundbreaking new technologies compared with previous models.
Facial -
recognition technology is already deployed
in retail outlets of all sorts and its use will radically increase
in coming years.
In comparison, the Apple's highest - end offering, the $ 999 iPhone X, features a next - generation «TrueDepth» camera with
facial recognition, an A11 Bionic chip capable of running Apple's next mobile operating system, iOS 11, as well as wireless charging.
Moments uses
facial recognition technology, which was developed by Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab, a group of 50 researchers led by Yann LeCun, an expert
in a type of machine learning called deep learning.
Creativity pick of the day:
In Apple's latest ad, a teenager who uses
facial recognition to open her iPhone X discovers a superhero - like capacity to unlock everything around her with a mere glance.
Starting this week, the social giant will ask users to actually agree to those new terms, and
in the EU it will finally prompt users to opt
in to the company's use of
facial recognition software, which Facebook hasn't used
in Europe because of regulations.