Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Abstract: Real-time detection of driver drowsiness is critical to reduce the risk of road accidents and fatalities. Current facial landmark-based methods usually use a two-stage paradigm, where faces ...

FBI data show a rise in government impersonation fraud. From deepfake video calls to IRS impersonation schemes, AI is reshaping how criminals target everyday taxpayers. We used to worry about ...

UniFace is a lightweight, production-ready face analysis library built on ONNX Runtime. It provides high-performance face detection, recognition, landmark detection, face parsing, gaze estimation, and ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is considering launching the feature ‘during a dynamic political environment.’ An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is ...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

Researchers have built a powerful optical sensor that can spot trace cancer biomarkers in blood at astonishingly low levels. The breakthrough could pave the way for simple blood tests that catch ...

Abstract: Facial landmark detection (FLD) is an important task in computer vision, involving the extraction of keypoints from facial images. Traditional methods typically employ a two-stage approach: ...