The results from the fall of 2020 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s Biometric Technology Rally are being reported and for the second year in a […]

Facial recognition company Cognitec has announced that its FaceVACS biometric engine has been updated and is now able to recognize individuals wearing masks. According to a press release announcing the […]

Charlette N’Guessan, a young engineer from Ghana, is the first woman to be awarded the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, an award founded and supported by the UK Royal Academy […]

Spain-based facial recognition company Herta has announced it is launching a new version of its facial recognition algorithm that is able to identify people wearing masks. This comes as the […]

Intel researchers published a study in which they looked into whether artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained to identify individuals’ faces can also be applied to thermal images of faces. Thermal […]

A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last Thursday shows that many of the facial recognition algorithms used today misidentify people of color far more […]

Vision-Box has announced that its Vision-Box FR facial recognition algorithm has achieved a top-15 performance in the latest round of testing by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). […]