Facial Recognition Researcher Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission

Researchers at the University of North Carolina Wilmington scraped videos of trans people from YouTube without permission to create a dataset aimed at stopping hypothetical terrorists. Continue reading Facial Recognition Researcher Left a Trans Database Exposed for Years After Using Images Without Permission

Wearable sonar tracks facial expressions using sound instead of cameras

Engineers at Cornell University have developed a new wearable device that can monitor a person’s facial expressions through sonar and recreate them on a digital avatar. Removing cameras from the equation could alleviate privacy concerns.Continue Readin… Continue reading Wearable sonar tracks facial expressions using sound instead of cameras

Researchers defeat facial recognition systems with universal face mask

Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition (FR) systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be done. “We validated our adversarial … Continue reading Researchers defeat facial recognition systems with universal face mask