Facial recognition tech helping place faces from the past
Here's looking at you, history.
Here's looking at you, history.
Counting the fish in the waters off Darwin has, until recently, been either deadeningly dull or potentially deadly, depending on the way you go about it.
Officials from the Department of Home Affairs have sought to assuage concerns that a proposed national facial recognition service could lay the basis for mass surveillance.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have designed a mirror which uses AI to detect an individual’s character traits based solely on their face. And it’s powerful enough to detect their levels of happiness, introversion and aggressiveness.
The first stage of a pilot to test ‘couch to gate’ biometrics at Sydney Airport has gone live.
Sydney Airport is working with Vision-Box to develop a mobile app that will allow travellers to capture an image of their face and their passport and use that data to enrol in a planned biometric-based authentication system.
The Australian Human Rights Commission has warned that bills to create a national facial recognition service will have an “unprecedented” impact on Australians’ privacy.
A US federal judge has ruled that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit alleging that the social network unlawfully used a facial recognition process on photos without user permission.
State and territory leaders have agreed with federal government plans to establish a national facial biometric matching capability, which will bring together passport, visa, citizenship and driver licence images into a single database.
The federal government will seek to have state and territory governments hand over photographs of all licensed drivers for use in a national facial recognition program.
The first phase of the government’s new Face Verification Service (FVS) is now live, justice minister Michael Keenan has announced.
NEC Australia has won a $780,000 contract to roll out facial recognition software for SA Police.
Mark Zuckerberg expects artificial intelligence will progress to make computers better than humans at basic sensory perception within the next 10 years and Facebook will end up knowing a lot more about you.
Apple has reportedly acquired artificial-intelligence startup Emotient, giving it access to technology that could one day imbue its devices with the ability to "read" people's emotions through their facial expressions.
The federal government has allocated $18.5 million to fund a new law enforcement tool dubbed the National Facial Biometric Matching Capability. The system will allow agencies to match images of unidentified individuals to photographs stored in a range of government records.