Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks
The Chinese facial recognition company Hanwang claims it can recognize people wearing masks: The company now says its masked facial recognition program has reached 95 percent accuracy in lab tests, and...
View ArticleGlobal Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19
OneZero is tracking thirty countries around the world who are implementing surveillance programs in the wake of COVID-19: The most common form of surveillance implemented to battle the pandemic is the...
View ArticleFawkes: Digital Image Cloaking
Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren’t recognized by facial recognition systems. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes...
View ArticleUsing “Master Faces” to Bypass Face-Recognition Authenticating Systems
Fascinating research: “Generating Master Faces for Dictionary Attacks with a Network-Assisted Latent Space Evolution.” Abstract: A master face is a face image that passes face-based...
View ArticleRecovering Real Faces from Face-Generation ML System
New paper: “This Person (Probably) Exists. Identity Membership Attacks Against GAN Generated Faces. Abstract: Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved stunning realism, fooling...
View ArticleManipulating Weights in Face-Recognition AI Systems
Interesting research: “Facial Misrecognition Systems: Simple Weight Manipulations Force DNNs to Err Only on Specific Persons“: Abstract: In this paper we describe how to plant novel types of backdoors...
View ArticleIdentity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
Interesting story: Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling’s death as an infant, and used the stolen identity to obtain Social...
View ArticleOn Technologies for Automatic Facial Recognition
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give...
View ArticleFacial Recognition Systems in the US
A helpful summary of which US retail stores are using facial recognition, thinking about using it, or currently not planning on using it. (This, of course, can all change without notice.) Three years...
View ArticleFacial Scanning by Burger King in Brazil
In 2000, I wrote: “If McDonald’s offered three free Big Macs for a DNA sample, there would be lines around the block.” Burger King in Brazil is almost there, offering discounts in exchange for a facial...
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