Archives for AI facial recognition

09 Jul

How Tencent’s Facial Recognition System Ensures Minor Gamers Stick To Curfew Regulations

China-based Tencent Games recently launched a facial recognition system to prevent minors from playing video games past their assigned time.  The initiative, called the Midnight Patrol, will conduct a face screening for accounts registered with real names and played for a certain amount of time at night. Users who refuse or fail the facial verification…

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29 Jul

Pre-Pandemic Facial Recognition Algorithms Falter In The Presence Of Masks

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“Even the best of the 89 commercial facial recognition algorithms tested had error rates between 5% and 50%.” The ongoing pandemic has established many uncomfortable norms in every corner of the world. Wearing masks is one such norm that has been embraced by many, reluctantly. Now the question is, what happens to those facial recognition…

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16 May

AI Facial Recognition Vs Contact Biometric Systems Amid Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic – and the new reality unveiled by this crisis – has not only disrupted lives but also the arc of several technologies. In what has come to be a significant blow, contact biometric technologies may not only have become redundant but also potentially lethal given the risk it carries in spreading the…

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