New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy. Video by Mark Thiessen and Rebecca Hale, National ...

Facial expressions have increasingly been used to assess emotional states in mammals. The recognition of pain in research animals is essential for their well-being and leads to more reliable research ...

Face mask wearing detection is an important technical approach to improve public health safety and real-time monitoring efficiency. However, under extreme lighting or weather conditions, it is ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is piloting facial recognition technologies that can see through face masks with a "promising" level of accuracy, meaning that travelers could end up ...

Facial recognition is becoming more accurate, but some systems exhibit racial bias and some uses of the technology are controversial Can Big Brother identify your face from street-level CCTV ...

The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. In 1964, mathematician and computer scientist Woodrow Bledsoe first attempted ...