According to the Jankowski lawsuit, the self-checkout register was equipped with a camera and a screen. On that screen, Jankowski saw a green box around his face, indicating that the system was ...

Darwin is a 2-year-old python who takes part in the library's "Read to a Reptile" program.

Abstract: Contemporary deep face recognition techniques predominantly utilize the Softmax loss function, designed based on the similarities between sample features and class prototypes. These ...

Abstract: Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging problem due to subtle intra-class variations, strong inter-class similarities, and external factors including pose variations, ...

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

Senator Edward J. Markey teamed up with fellow US Senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, to demand answers from immigration officials about their use of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ...

A lawsuit in Illinois accuses Home Depot of collecting customer data without consent. The plaintiff, Benjamin Jankowski, filed the class action suit against Home Depot on August 1 in US District Court ...

ROC is claiming the top spot overall among all American biometrics developers in NIST’s facial recognition evaluations. A new algorithm from the company delivered accuracy, efficiency and speed ...

As ICE ramps up its attempts to locate and deport undocumented immigrants, it’s faced a massive backlash in some parts of the U.S., including protests and, on occasion, attacks of ICE agents. Now, to ...

U.S. District Judge Judith Levy dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police on August 5 filed by the victim of a wrongful arrest. The woman, Porcha Woodruff of Detroit, Michigan, had been arrested in ...

Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security have demanded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turn over legal and technical details about Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ...

We encrypt face images to provide biometric and database security. Face recognition is central to many authentication, security, and personalized applications. Yet, it suffers from significant privacy ...